Serra, the referee dismissed from The Hague after the dispute with Mourinho (and others) – Corriere.it

Among the names that‘Aia (Italian association of referees) has decided to exclude in view of the 2023/24 season from Serie A and Serie B there is also that of Marco Serraa Piedmontese whistle that has been talked about a lot due to the dispute with Jos Mourinho on the occasion of Cremonese-Rome. However, the 40-year-old will be dismissed for justified technical reasons. Therefore considerations of the field were included in the evaluation, linked to the performance he had during the last championship and to the errors that caused him to slip to the bottom of the appropriate ranking, even if the attitude held in the immediately following moments certainly did not help the referee to the spat with the Roma coach, when the referee firmly defended his position. The Piedmontese will remain out and with him another group of referees who are at the bottom of the rankings such as Miele, Meraviglia, Gariglio and Paterna.

When Serra infuriated Milan

Serra rose to prominence not only for the Mourinho question, but also for the mistakes in Milan-Spezia in January 2022, when he denied Messias’ goal by stopping the game for Bastoni’s intervention from behind on Rebic and therefore without conceding the rule of advantage for the Rossoneri, who left the field defeated (2-1) and angry. Serra himself, after immediately realizing the mistake, left the field very shaken, so much so that the Milan players themselves (including Ibrahimovic), instead of insisting on protests, even went to cheer him up.