ISL 2017: Twitter erupts after FC Pune City coach Ranko Popovic gets suspended for slamming referees

The Serbian was handed a four-match suspension and a Rs 5 lakh fine.

Nice!
Things like this should happen to him!
— Akarsh Sahay (@Akarsh_Says_Off) December 28, 2017

Well well.. Referees can make wrong decisions and that can decide the fate of matches ...A coach working hard to get a win for their team cannot comment against those referees. Strange....Get some quality referees and then give these kind of puNishments
— Rajesh Madhavan (@kmrnair) December 28, 2017

@mihirsv @MarcusMergulhao ind refs will improve with game time just like yng ind plyrs. If u guys write tomo, isl will repl them. Less empl
— Sivakumar (@siva_twiter) December 28, 2017

Pathetic refereeing there... Referee absolutely making no sense there. @IndSuperLeague
Get in boys... 💪#LetsFootball #BleedOrange #Pune
— Sandeep Deshpande (@sandydeshpande) December 23, 2017

dear referee 🖕 #GOAPUN #HeroISL #LetsFootball
— Aparan (@Aparan10) December 23, 2017

#Gaurs played well. A bit unlucky today. Poor referring. But the second goal was again due to the goalkeeper's mistake.#GOAPUN #BenchKattimani #ForcaGoa #FCG #LetsFootball
— Dave Campbell (@DaveCampbell08) December 23, 2017

So, #ISL suspends Pune @FCPuneCity coach for 4 matches and slaps Rs 5 lakh fine for comments against referees but takes no action against referees who have been atrocious. #IndianFootball
— Mihir Vasavda (@mihirsv) December 28, 2017

Fascism 101.

Meulensteen, Shakti Chauhan have openly spoken about refs too. Nothing has happened to them.

But then again, Roca abstained from commenting on the refs (for reasons like these).

FSDL trying to cover their screw ups by slapping fines.

Just wow.
— Vijay.R.B (@TheBaronVj) December 28, 2017

One match for each "joker in yellow"?
— Soumo Ghosh (@soumo17) December 28, 2017

In this particular game (FC Goa vs Pune City), referee disallowed two legitimate calls for penalties at either end. https://t.co/aMrKUFbCz8
— Marcus Mergulhao (@MarcusMergulhao) December 28, 2017

He openly questioned the referee's integrity in a way. To be fair, Pune have been at the end of few controversial decisions. And refereeing in ISL has been very very very poor. So some coach was always going to explode. Unfortunately for Pune, it is Ranko
— Saakiyan (@Saakiyan_Sabari) December 28, 2017