fullname internationalyears years birth_place otheroccupation league internationalrole birth_date confederation role image article_title name
manuel enrique mejuto gonzález 1999 -- 2010 1987 1995 -- 2010 -- 1990 1990 -- 1994 1994 -- 1995 la felguera , spain civil servant tercera segunda b segunda la liga referee 16 april 1965 fifa listed referee referee referee referee manuel enrique mejuto gonzález.jpg manuel mejuto gonzález
 manuel mejuto gonzález
manuel mejuto gonzález

manuel enrique mejuto gonzález -lrb- la felguera , langreo , born 16 april 1965 -rrb- is a former spanish football referee .
he is known for refereeing two matches in the euro 2004 in portugal .
he has also refereed three uefa cup matches and thirty-seven uefa champions league matches in his career , which include the 2005 final between liverpool and milan .
mejuto received extreme criticism from the scottish press following a vital euro 2008 qualifying match between scotland and italy on 17 november 2007 .
scotland had to win in order to qualify , but the match ended with an italian win following the referee 's decision to award italy a dubious free kick -lrb- which they subsequently scored from -rrb- that the scotland manager alex mcleish described as `` unbelievable '' .
scotland 's alan hutton was forcibly pushed over by an italian player , who also fell as a result of the collision .
despite the linesman being mere feet away from the incident , the referee awarded italy the free kick , much to the ire of the scottish support .
on 26 august 2009 gonzalez was once again embroiled in controversy regarding questionable officiating .
during a champions league game , at emirates stadium between arsenal v glasgow celtic , gonzalez awarded arsenal a penalty shot when he judged celtic goalkeeper boruc to have tripped an arsenal forward .
celtic players were incensed and proven to be right when replays clearly showed that the arsenal player had dived .
this call ended any chance celtic had of winning the tie and once again vilified gonzalez in all of scotland 's eyes .
at the euro 2008 finals , mejuto dismissed the managers of both teams , joachim löw and josef hickersberger , from the touchline and into the stands at the end of the first half of the group b match between austria and germany on 16 june 2008 , `` for what appeared to be an ongoing spat with the fourth official '' , according to the bbc .
mejuto was criticized by zlatan ibrahimović for his performance in a 2010 world cup qualification match between sweden and denmark on 10 october 2009 , where he dismissed two swedish goals .
the second goal was dismissed in a situation where neither mejuto or his assisting referees had viewed the situation , thus sending sweden out of the world cup finals .
in the 2009 -- 2010 uefa champions league first leg tie between inter milan and chelsea gonzalez was criticized for his decision not to award a penalty to salomon kalou after a questionable foul by walter samuel on him inter went on to win 2 -- 1 .
