Pitso blasts referee after Wits draw

Mosimane was not pleased with the referee’s decision not to dismiss Hlatshwayo for committing a bookable offence while sitting on a yellow card.

Referee Abongile Tom sent off Buhle Mkhwanazi for picking up two yellow cards for two separate incidents.

“I think in terms of opportunities, is the same like we played them in Durban, we just don’t put the goal easily against them and not to say we can’t make a goal, we just miss,” the Sundowns coach told SuperSport TV.

“I mean those two headers that Lebohang Maboe and err, I think it’s ‘Pitso’ (Sphelele Mkhulise) should have sealed the game, you don’t need much.

“But, I’m going to be controversial and you know I say what I say I don’t care, ja it’s okay. I think ‘Tyson’ [Thulani Hlatshwayo] had nine lives tonight. He was the last man and it’s a red [card], it doesn’t mean if you’ve given a red then you can’t give another red, no! ‘Let me go talk to him’, what are you talking?

“And then he (Hlatshwayo) goes and clatters ‘Pitso’ and then he (the referee) talks to him again, no (Abongile) Tom is not my referee of the year, last year ja. This year he was not brave, he made a lot of mistakes this year and he’s a good referee.

“I’m not talking about any other thing. I’m only talking about one issue that ‘Tyson’ should have walked. That’s it. ‘Mshishi’ (Themba Zwane) I don’t know what the yellow card is for. You know you ask yourself because all the newspapers wrote that ‘Mshishi’ and all those guys they’re on a yellow card, they will never play the next game but it’s fine.

“It’s okay, I’m not unhappy with the result, Wits defended well. We did the same when we played them at Milpark, we defended well. But Tom is not my referee of the year – I give him less points. Even against Maritzburg, he had a big one, so he can’t be the referee of the year. I’m the number one campaigner against him. Thank you,” he concluded.

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