Earlier this evening we mentioned that Irish ref Alan Kelly was in charge of the BATE Borisov v Fenerbahce. We showed this video of him sending off Raul Meireles. The game finished scoreless.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PUFizAht1E]
Fenerbahce fans took to twitter to complain. Here's a selection of them.
@seidodge @ballsdotie Alan Kelly was the 12th player of Bate in whole game. fck ?reland, fuck Alan Kelly, fuck uefa #fuckplatini
— Bülent Ta?k?n (@BlntTskn) February 14, 2013
Irish son of a bitch alan kelly,French son of a bitch Platini
— ACantas 1907 ++ (@alicantas) February 14, 2013
@aligrsoy4 alan kelly 0-0 FENERBAHÇE
— Ceyhun Tekdemir (@CeyhunTekdemir) February 14, 2013
From today,the meaning of "son of a bitch" is alan kelly.Pls do not confuse with today's referee of BATE-FB, is just a coincidence.
— Tolga Kanl? (@h_tolgak) February 14, 2013
your refree Alan Kelly's show extreme racist behaviour on thegame oftonight betweenbate- fbahçe !Hope you will take note! @uefacom
— Erkan (@erkanruhan) February 14, 2013
@europaleague the referee of borisov-fenerbahce , alan kelly is a wrong referee ! How can fifa gives hem the uefa @fifacom license??
— Akman (@AkmanDJ) February 14, 2013
@uefacom @europaleague From which stable did you bring Alan Kelly? Pls send him to his hovel back. Green grass can be found also elsewhere.
— Tolga Kanl? (@h_tolgak) February 14, 2013
A quick twitter search shows far, far more in Turkish. Happy Valentine's Day Alan!