“My work email account has received numerous messages which are incredible and very difficult to deal with and to ignore”, said Zwayer, who was at the center of heated discussions at the beginning of December because of his management of the top Bundesliga game between Dortmund and Bayern sky.
“Things that are incredibly close to me”
“I was written to by the Berlin police that there was a death threat against me on the Internet. And these are things that I couldn’t hide from my wife, especially because they were incredibly close to me.”, said the 40-year-old.
Zwayer further: “You try to load up this backpack and pick it up and say goodbye to your wife in the door like you’ve been doing 15 years. And then you see her bursting into tears. Not because she misses me, because you’re gone, but because she cares about me.”
Allegations of manipulation denied
In addition, Zwayer denied the allegations that had been smoldering for years that he once accepted money from scandal referee Robert Hoyzer or another person to manipulate a game. “I have never been offered money, have never been overtly told of any intended or actual match-fixing.”, he claims: “I have never received any money from Robert for any involvement in any manipulation of a game.”
The fact is, however, that Zwayer, who was linesman at Hoyzer at the time, DFB has been blocked.
Time out after scandal game in Dortmund
Zwayer took a break after the game in Dortmund in early December. “Felix Zwayer wants to mentally recover and reflect on what happened after the game in Dortmund”, referee boss Lutz Michael Fröhlich explained.
The debate about Zwayer was triggered by young Dortmund star Jude Bellingham. The Englishman verbally attacked the referee after the game against Bayern: “You give a referee who has already postponed games the biggest game in Germany. What do you expect?”