Paying Dearly for Soccer Referee Abuse
By John Wendt
In the French Ligue 1 soccer on February 22, 2025, AJ Auxerre secured a 3-0 victory over Olympique de Marseille (OM). What made legal news is that following the game, OM president Pablo Longoria took exception to the officiating and roundly criticized referee Jérémy Stinat for penalizing OM defender Derek Cornelius with a second yellow care. Longoria stated, “This is corruption. I’ve never seen anything like it. You can write it down: ‘Pablo Longoria says itâ