Huntelaar: "Refereeing is becoming a nuisance"

Sunday 21 September 2008

Klaas Jan Huntelaar was surprisingly harsh in his comments on referee Eric Braamhaar after today's Classic: "He influenced the game. The refereeing Holland is really becoming a nuisance," the forward told FC Update.nl.

Huntelaar referred to the moment in the first half when Feyenoord keeper Henk Timmer brought down Leonardo on his way to the goal and only got a yellow card when Leonardo would have had a clear path to the goal and also to the questionable penalty Feyenoord got close to the end of the game and from which they equalized.

About the Leonardo-Timmer incident Huntelaar said: "That is simply a red card, but he didn't have the guts. As an explanation he said that there were other defenders there. Well, these defenders were only there to take the ball out of the net, as they would have never caught Leonardo."

The lightly given penalty for the assumed foul on Michael Mols, angered Huntelaar.

"He does give a penalty for that, but on the other side Suarez and I should also have gotten a penalty. The referee simply wasn't consistent," said the forward who's fed up with the Dutch referees.

"It's becoming a nuisance. There's no consistency at all. Which referee I do like? Well, Luinge is consistent and Jol was as well. But the two of them are not allowed to lead top matches any longer, I believe. Anyway, I should shut my mouth, otherwise I might even get a suspension."

Huntelaar finished by saying that the draw was due to the poor referee: "We simply didn't play well."