In their message Kerala Blasters wrote, “The Club’s motive and endeavour are to ensure that the level of the beautiful game in India consistently increases. However, incidents of officiating incompetence (like the ones we were subjected to) drop the standards we are all collectively trying to raise and in turn harm the game and the fans who passionately support their teams.
Keeping the rules and practices of the game in mind, we have outlined all the incidents which were clearly wrongly dealt with on the field by Mr. Venkatesh and hope that our letter, in all its detail, will result in the AIFF taking concrete steps towards making sure this doesn’t happen again.”