Barcelona sent a formal letter to the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to express their “deep concern” with inconsistent refereeing decisions in Spain, the club confirmed on Saturday.
The document comes after a tight offside ruling denied Pau Cubarsí a goal in the Catalans’ 4–0 defeat to Atlético Madrid in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals. An eight-minute VAR review, where officials had to manually draw offside lines due to a failure of semi-automated offside technology, ultimately chopped the goal off the scoresheet.
