The referee who has whistled the most games in the First Division and a commentator for Cadena SER, Eduardo Iturralde González, analyzes the controversial refereeing decisions of the Spain-Germany of 1976, such as an offside that the Spanish players claimed by raising their hands and stopping running. . The former referee remembers that comparing the football of then with that of now does not make much sense: headlines like ‘robbery’ or ‘disorder’ are no longer given because with the VAR so much controversy has ended. He also places emphasis on the fouls that were not claimed: “Of every ten tickets that there were at that time, nine were very red cards.”
This is the second installment of the nine-part series of Itu’s VARin which the referee scrutinizes the controversial refereeing decisions on different days of all editions of the Euro Cup, such as the false penalty in the Spain-England match at the 1996 Euro Cup.
