Jude Bellingham has moved to clear up his controversial red card in Real Madrid’s 1-1 La Liga draw at Osasuna.
The England international was dismissed via a straight red card just before the break with Los Blancos leading 1-0 in Pamplona.
Referee Jose Luis Munuera Montero sent Bellingham off for just the second time in his Real Madrid career after a flashpoint between the pair following an Osasuna free kick.
Bellingham appeared to persistently speak to Montero as play restarted and the official eventually pulled out a red card.
Luka Modric was spotted trying to explain the situation at the start of the second period but the damage was already done from Bellingham’s perspective.
Bellingham explained himself at full time, claiming the interpretation in Spanish of what he said in English, was not correctly understood.
“I don’t want to repeat what I said but it’s more like ‘f**k’ or ‘f**k off’. I want everyone to know I didn’t want to put the team in a situation where they had to play with ten,” as per quotes from Marca.
“If you look at the video you can see it’s not the same as what the report says, I hope the Federation takes that into account. I didn’t insult anyone, I didn’t even say it to the referee, I said it to myself.
“It was a lack of understanding, a clear error by the referee.”
The issue was exacerbated by differing interpretations of what Bellingham said with Real Madrid indicating his four word expletive can be understood as ‘don’t f**k with me’ in Spanish, which does not appear to be the case.
The situation will be assessed by La Liga and the RFEF in the coming days with Bellingham currently facing at least a one-game ban ahead of the home clash with Girona on February 23.
It’s so annoying, these players can’t just shut their mouth and focus on helping the team.
Bellingham and Vinicius don’t want to learn, they are always confronting the referees and talking shit, also insulting the match officials.
I just hope Bellingham has learnt something today. His inability to control himself cost real madrid today thereby giving the chasing pack a chance to catch up with Los Blancos on the league table, Atletico can even go top of LA Liga with a win.
Where by Barca can go level on points with real madrid, which certainly put the club in a difficult position in trying to retain the LA Liga title.
Barca suck N
egreira cock even more…
I watched Bellingham’s full statement and clearly his expression was to dismiss the (frankly incredulous) situation in a typically English way. It effectively translates to “go away”. The floral uses of the F word in English cannot be even understood by a Spanish speaking referee… all they hear and understand is the single “F” word and think only of “F*** Off”. Bellingham clearly explained that it was not directed at the referee .
I’ve known some Irish friends that used the “F” word 3 times in a 6 word sentence… and each occurrence of the word meant something different – and NOT directed at the listener.
We are going into dangerous territory if a non-English speaking referee SELECTIVELY CHOOSES TO INTERPRET A PHRASE FROM A FOREIGN LANGUAGE they do not speak. E.g. an African player (just an example) could freely swear at the referee and the referee would not be able to take action because he would not understand a single word. This should NOT have been a red card.
These people should Adam and Eve the fact that Bellingham is an English so therefore his words are sometimes not directed to the officials. And he ( Bellingham ) should understand the fact he is in Spain but not England and therefore he should fucking mind his speech and how he sometimes talk. If he is wise he should learn from his mistakes.
It’s a game, say anything you want to say, tomorrow is for you and your team.
That’s the issue of him,
It’s not a strange for real Madrid players to insult, the referee, especially vinicious junior.
Red card