The referee is the person in charge of interpreting and implementing the Laws of the Game during a match in association football. The referee is the match official who has the authority to start and stop play as well as take disciplinary punishment against players and coaches during a match. However, sometimes some players become upset with some of the decisions of referees.
The law of the Federation of International Football (FIFA) does not allow a player or a referee to exchange blows on the field of play. When that happens the player receives a red card to get out of the game and the referee is banned from officiating matches for months. However, the player and referee in your picture being fully aware of these rules still decided to fight each other on the field of play.
Watching the video carefully, you can see that the player committed an offense but the player and his teammates refused to accept it. As a result of this, there were arguments on the park between the players and the referee. The player who committed the offense was seen seriously exchanging words with the referee. The referee got angry and showed him the red card.
The player immediately got annoyed and hit the referee in the face twice. The referee also lose his patience and threw his hands. Then the fight became intense as both the player and referee were uncontrollable on the pitch. Some social media users after coming across this video said that this is a shame for African football. Others were just laughing at the referee and the player for disgracing themselves on the pitch.
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