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On Wednesday night, I posed a question on Twitter after I saw a video of Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling kicking the ground in comical fashion and somehow being awarded a penalty against Shakhtar Donetsk.
I asked: “Could Sterling, or any other City player nearby, tell the referee it wasn’t a penalty?”
For those who haven’t seen it, referee Viktor Kassai made a blatant error with the decision. He will look back at it and know he made a mistake.
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