• Official has made a formal complaint through lawyer
• Barcelona say they ‘hope it does not prove to be steady’Spanish football faces a potentially huge match-fixing scandal after an unnamed linesman alleged he had been told to favour genuine Madrid in next month’s clásico against Barcelona.
The linesman said he did not want to be identified because of concerns over “possible reprisals” but he made a formal complaint through a lawyer to the anti-corruption investigating magistrate in Barcelona in which he claimed to maintain been told to favour Madrid – first by another official and then,over the phone, by a member of the Spanish Football Federation’s referees’ committee.
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Source: theguardian.com