Zamalek chairman Mortada Mansour (Al-Ahram)
Zamalek chairman Mortada Mansour said that he confronted Spanish referee Carlos Velasco Carballo right after the 3-2 Egypt Super Cup defeat to Ahly and told him “you are very, very bad”.
In a match that witnessed eight yellow cards, including six for Zamalek, the league and cup champions were on the receiving end of two penalty decisions that saw their rivals come back from one goal down to take the lead.
Apart from Carballo's unfamiliar act to leave the pitch after a brawl had erupted between both teams’ players, no decision from the official during the game was deemed largely controversial – including the three spot kicks he gave.
Mansour, however, was dismayed by the referee’s performance.
"I know very few English words, but I used them to tell the referee you are very, very bad," the outspoken chairman said in a television interview following Thursday's clash.
After their side beat Ahly for the first time since 2007 in a 2-0 Egypt Cup final last month, Zamalek’s faithful had high hopes of snatching another trophy from their decorated rivals, who otherwise managed to prevail 3-2 at UAE’s Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium.
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