Buffon red card v Real Madrid: Michael Owen's joke didn't go down well

In April 2018, Gianluigi Buffon was involved in a bit of a fracas in a crucial Champions League match against Real Madrid.

After watching his Juventus side race into a 3-0 lead at the Bernabeu and level the quarter-final tie on aggregate, the goalkeeper had to deal with the heartbreak of the hosts being awarded a last-minute penalty.

Buffon became enraged at the situation and his furious reaction resulted in Michael Oliver sending him off in what many believed would be the Italian’s last European appearance.

Cristiano Ronaldo duly scored the pressure spot kick to send Real Madrid through and after the match, Buffon went on a quite extraordinary rant.

Oliver was, unsurprisingly, the victim of the verbal tirade, the legendary goalkeeper saying in a post-match interview: “To award such a doubtful, or super doubtful penalty, just ahead of the final whistle and destroy the work of a team who gave absolutely everything you have to have a rubbish bin instead of a heart.

“You need to be prepared for a game like this. You have to watch the first leg and see that a similar foul was not punished with a penalty for Juventus in Turin. And especially you need personality to referee a game like this. If you don’t have personality, you better watch the game from the stands with your wife and your kids while eating fries.

“What did I say to him while I was protesting? I could say everything in that moment because when you take such decision in a certain moment of the game it means you don’t know what sport is.

“A human being cannot decide the elimination of a team with such decision. When I don’t feel that I’m good enough, I put myself in a corner. He should do the same. It’s a matter of sensibility. It means you don’t know where you