'Referee has garbage bag instead of heart', rages Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon told English referee Michael Oliver he "has no heart" and should have been watching Juventus' Champions League quarter-final against Real Madrid in the stands "with his wife and a Sprite".

Oliver awarded Real a penalty in the 93rd minute at the Santiago Bernabeu, after Juve defender Mehdi Benatia brought down Lucas Vazquez with a clumsy challenge from behind.

Buffon was then sent off for his protests and Cristiano Ronaldo scored the resulting spot-kick to drag Real through to the semi-finals with a dramatic 4-3 aggregate win.

"This referee has no heart, he has a garbage bag instead of a heart" Buffon told Italian channel Mediaset Premium after the second leg tie which his team had won 3-1.

"If you do not have personality and courage, you should go to the stands to watch the match with your wife and with a Sprite."
"In this case, he should be in the stands with his parents, with his friends, with fries and coca-cola, and watch the game. You cannot do something like that."
"If there is contact it is with my thigh and that is part of football. There is never the intention to foul him or to push him." Benatia added: