Free State Stars coach Tom Saintfiet feels his side were robbed in their 1-0 defeat to Orlando Pirates last night at Orlando Stadium.
Saintfiet feels that they had a goal disallowed when Thandani Ntshumayelo cleared Richard Henyekane's 89th minute goal-bound effort which appeared to have crossed the line.
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He also feels Bucs winger Khethowakhe Masuku should have been shown red after he appeared to deliberately kick Bokang Thlone in the face while both players were on the ground in retaliation to a tackle.
Thlone was forced to retire from the game with a broken jaw, leaving Saintfiet unimpressed.
“Football, Fifa, CAF, and Safa asked for fair play and I think both teams were quite in fair play, but we have to be with 25 people to play fair,” Saintfiet said.
“It is a team sport from all the people on the field. A player after 42 minutes gets a kick in his face and breaks his jaw, but we don't see anything.
“There are four people looking at it and no one saw it. The guy is in the hospital with a broken jaw. And we don't see anything.”
The Belgian-born coach feels his side could have come away with at least a point had Henyekane’s effort been given.
“I got an SMS from my brother in London and he says that the ball was clearly behind the line - a goal for us and it should have been 1-1.
“We are not playing in a township, we are playing in a stadium for television cameras where people are paid for these jobs.
“So everyone on the pitch has to do his job, the ball was behind the line and it is a clear goal. I received messages from all over the world that it was clear goal.
“So we have a broken jaw and we don't get a goal. I would like to see a match where I don't have to change a player who gets a broken jaw after a kick to his face, and to see where a ball gets behind the line and it is given as a goal.”
