Willy Delajod spoke to Dauphiné Libéré to denounce the harassment against him. On January 27, during the match between OM and Monaco, the French referee sent off Guillermo Maripan after a questionable foul. Then the referee recounts the ordeal he experienced.
“My phone, available due to my activities as a real estate agent, rang every two minutes. I received anonymous calls insulting me. I had to face a lot of opposition on social networks, to the point of asking my communications agency to delete all hate messages.” he declared. After the meeting, the general director of AS Monaco, Thiago Scuro pointed the finger at the arbitration.
But for Willy Delajod during these speeches, the speakers outside the meeting do not realize what their words can cause. “When a club feels wronged, it pushes all its weight on a referee who will find himself alone against 3,000. People think that the referee is indestructible but no.” he added.