One of the more disturbing scenes of the season came in the Champions League tie between Paris Saint-Germain and Istanbul Basaksehir, in which an alleged racist incident involving a match official took place, forcing the match to be postponed, and Pierre Webo has revealed the details of the evening.
Webo was heavily involved at the epicentre of the issue, with he having heard what the fourth official supposedly said from his position on the bench.
"It will stay forever, not only in my mind but in the mind of everybody else," Webo told France Football. "The match was stopped, it was the first time.
"Referees, players, fans now all know that such behaviour will put the continuation of the match in danger, at any moment we can just stop, something has changed."
The fourth official on that evening was Romanian, Sebastian Coltescu, and whilst the investigation into what was said is ongoing, Webo believes firm action must be taken.
"I want sanctions to be applied, because it's the first time," Webo added.
"Very strong punishments must be given, otherwise this will continue to be repeated and nobody will remember what happened."
After the two teams left the pitch, there was a heated debate about what should come next, however the Turkish side stuck to their guns and refused to play unless a replacement officiating team were in control.
"There was a lot of pressure from UEFA in the dressing room," Webo confirmed.
"They came to see some players saying that we had to resume the match, otherwise it couldn't be rescheduled.
"They said there would be no time to replay with the pandemic and the tight schedule."
BLACOLOGY342
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But he's a black man !! what's wrong if someone calls you black man ?!!!
Lauinptyz
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Negro is a romanian word used for black. the refree was not using to racially abuse webo instead he was using to identify. if there's a person from India from a group of Americans. they'll be like "that Indian, this Indian" this can't be denoted as racism. some things are really hyperbolated
if this is considered as racism the black colour should be renamed to something else🤣.
Lauinptyz
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Negro is a romanian word used for black. the refree was not using to racially abuse webo instead he was using to identify. if there's a person from India from a group of Americans. they'll be like "that Indian, this Indian" this can't be denoted as racism. some things are really hyperbolated
Fitiky
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Lord have mercy on all different kinds of ppl to realize that we're all brothers en sisters so that they should stop racism
Mawsor09
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Stfu Webo your taking too much advantage for being black person .