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Gianluigi Buffon is due to retire at the end of the season but the regrettable truth is that he should have quit some time ago. He led a swarm of enraged Juventus players crowding around Oliver and shouted and screamed abuse in his face. Buffon and his team-mates were distraught because they had been on buffon gay brink of one of the great comebacks in recent football history and now they anticipated its ruin.

The level of the intimidation was such that Oliver had little choice but to show Buffon a red card. The English referee decided to send the Juventus goalkeeper off for his reaction to decision. Some, blinded by loyalty, patriotism, celebrity, sentiment or a mix of all four, have suggested the sending off was harsh.

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I was rooting for Juventus, too but, if he were not retiring, Buffon would surely be looking at much more than an obligatory one-match ban. When it comes to fulfilling a dream, there is no exemption for being a legend. Buffon went on to compound his stupidity after the match by launching into a series of bitter personal attacks on Oliver.

He appealed to the romance of his listeners and said the referee had a rubbish bag for a heart. He accused him of lacking courage. He said he should have been in the stands with his wife and kids, eating crisps. Buffon seemed to rage at the fact the romance of the story was being wiped out by Oliver.

It was an interesting buffon gay of the rules of the game. Buffon appeared to be arguing that the referee had failed in his duty because he had ruined the story. He was saying that, because Juventus had come desperately close to causing a huge upset at the home of the Champions League holders, they deserved to be allowed to finish the job and that anyone who buffon gay in their way was a fool and buffon gay ingrate.

Sometimes, it makes dreams come true. Sometimes, it dashes them. When it dashes them, it sometimes feels cruel beyond belief but it is still sport. The game lasts 90 minutes plus injury time and Juventus could not quite hold out. If Buffon were honest, if he had had the courage he accused Oliver of lacking, he would have raged at the Juventus defender who did not jump as high as Cristiano Ronaldo when he nodded the ball back across goal with one of his most prodigious leaps.

If Buffon were honest, he would have raged at Mehdi Benatia for first allowing Lucas Vazquez to steal ahead of him, then for barging him over. Buffon should have raged at the Juventus defender who failed to stop Cristiano Ronaldo. Instead, Buffon chose to blame someone else.

Because that is always easier than blaming yourself. How sad that, at the end of his career, instead of taking responsibility, he shirked it. He was too busy with his tantrum. Some elements of his reaction are forgivable but his continuing bullying of Oliver is not. Perhaps one could trot out the heat-of-the-moment excuse for his on-field antics as an extenuating circumstance but his continued attempt to bully and belittle Oliver after the game was disgusting.

Referees have never been under more pressure, both at the highest levels of the game where their decisions are subject to more and more scrutiny, and at the grass roots where stories of them being subjected to violence seem to be becoming more commonplace.

There is no question about that. In the minds of the impressionable, it will legitimise the belittling of the referee.