Athletic Bilbao Fans Insult Barcelona with Allegations of ‘Mafia Money’

Athletic Bilbao fans insulted Barcelona amid the Negrera affair during a match that brought the two teams together on Sunday night in the 25th round of the Spanish Football League.

Barça came back with three valuable points from the stadium of their host, Athletic Bilbao, beating him with an unanswered goal, and the fatal draw for the hosts at the San Mamés stadium was cancelled.

In light of Barcelona’s official allegation of bribery of referees in what is known in the media as the “Negrera Affair”, Bilbao fans have expressed their anger.

Fans chanted against Barcelona and threw fake banknotes with the words “mafia” in connection with the accusation of the Catalan club of taking bribes for arbitration.

In addition, Athletic Bilbao fans protested at the moment when Brazilian international Rafinha scored a goal, and also after Iñaki Williams did not equalize.

The prosecution in Barcelona is directed against the Catalan club in its moral capacity, as well as against Rosell, Bartomeu and two other people from the latter’s team.

The case concerns alleged payments made by Barcelona to Negrere, former Vice President of the Committee for Technical Arbitration, for providing advice and verbal advice to the club on topics related to refereeing.

Prosecutors indicated that the Catalan club paid Negrera a total of more than 7.3 million euros between 1994 and 2018.

According to Barcelona, ​​which denies any wrongdoing, Negrera was paid to advise the club on refereeing matters. But the Spanish judiciary believes that these sums could be used to bribe the rulers.

Source: “Wakalat”