Lester to Face FA Rap for Spastic Outburst

The player who was also booked for diving, claimed that the referee and his assistants were biased, and were unfairly trying to influence the result of the game: “The ref’s a spastic. He was very weak and very poor and he and his linesmen were determined to make Ipswich win." he was quoted as saying in the Sun Newspaper.

“But we couldn’t do anything about it because the ref refused to talk to us during or after the game. He’s just a weak individual. All three (appeals) were definite penalties but I can’t believe he didn’t give the last one. My shirt was ripped and my back was cut, yet he gave them the free-kick.”