Other examples of big refereeing calls that both sides hate?

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There was a fairly bonkers end to last week’s English premiership match between Man City and Liverpool….

tl:dr(ish) version the Liverpool were losing 2-1 and their goalkeeper came forward for a set piece leaving the goal undefended. A Man City striker took advantage of this and stormed towards the Liverpool goal. A Liverpool player was in hot pursuit but clearly wasn’t going to catch him, so blatantly fouled the striker. With the help of the foul he was able to catch up and was about to kick the ball out of play when he in turn was fouled by the striker, and the ball ended up in the net. The outcome (finally) was the goal was disallowed but the defending player was sent off.

Pretty crazy series of events but what was interesting to me is neither team was happy with this. Man City would much rather have the goal (they are in tight race for the title and may well come down to goals scored), the match was almost over so didn’t care they were playing against 10 men for like 10 seconds. Liverpool don’t care about the goal, and would much rather not have had a player sent off (and banned for their next match).

My question is what other examples of this are there in any sport? Where a big refereeing call is equally hated by both sides?

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The 1988 Olympic gold boxing scandal probably counts. The South Korean boxer (Park Si-Hun) was obviously out-boxed by his American opponent, yet was awarded gold by the judges in a clearly rigged way, shocking even the Korean boxer himself. The American boxer (Roy Jones) had been angry about it of course, but Park was screwed over too because this rigged result tarnished his name and was unfair to the American boxer, and Park in fact later gifted the gold to Jones many years later since he never felt right about it. Park even said he’d developed depression and suicidal thoughts because of the longterm criticism of him having been unfairly awarded the gold.