Casting aspersions on a match official is a camouflage to cop out of confronting a crappy display.
That is the exercise in futility that Bidvest Wits engaged in on Wednesday night and frankly failed with flying colours.
It was a classic case of crass and no class by out of wits Wits as they blamed everybody but themselves for a plainly pedestrian performance.
Their reaction to a 2-0 home defeat to Kaizer Chiefs on Wednesday night was not dissimilar to wailing hyenas on steroids.
Displeased by the result that dented their title aspirations, players and officials of the Premier Soccer League (PSL) table-toppers displayed their arrogance - which was apparent even during the match - for all to see.
The Students were touched in their lecture room by what they perceived to be rotten refereeing by Victor Gomes.
The core of their complaint was that Gomes has given Robyn Johannes a red card on three occasions.
But both fouls Johannes committed in midweek warranted yellow cards, which saw him see red.
Instead of finding fault with ref Kojak, Wits must look at the men in the mirror. Staring back at them will be individuals who failed to rise to the occasion on the night in question and were second-best to Chiefs.
Shocked out of their socks, they sought a scapegoat. Gomes was an easy target to shield their shortcomings.
Wits are hellbent on wresting the title from reigning champions Mamelodi Sundowns, but it is not going to happen by hook or crook.
Only a congregation of imbeciles will be hoodwinked by the tomfoolery of trying to play victim to an imaginary enemy.
The cold truth is that Wits have only themselves to blame for producing an uneducated performance on an unproductive night at the office.
Their attempt to shift the blame for their loss to Gomes is an unappetising buffet of bland buffoonery served on an unappealing bed of banality and sprinkled with a sauce of insanity!
The behaviour of the log leaders was uncouth. During the match they barked at the referee's decisions like a pack of demented rabid dogs, dismissing decision after decision with a derision of undiminished enthusiasm.
After the match their chief executive officer, Jose Ferreira, was a man deranged, firing a verbal volley that was certainly not wishing Gomes well for the new year. Ferreira resembled a man who had guzzled a gallon of gavini (home-brewed beer).
Great exemplary behaviour by a member of the PSL executive committee, no? Leadership right there. Bravo.
Even for Wits, their antics were scrapings from the bottom of a barrel of ludicrous excuses for a defeat they truly and thoroughly deserved.
Gomes is no angel by any stretch of the imagination. A few weeks back he was the man in the middle in the Durban derby between AmaZulu and Golden Arrows.
Bonginkosi Ntuli was tripped and he blatantly handled the ball before passing it to a teammate to score.
Gomes was wrong not to penalise Ntuli for handball and award a free kick to Arrows.
Done in as they were, Arrows didn't scream at the referee like nyaope addicts in overdrive.
On the day when parents proudly posted their bundles of joy on social media going to school, Wits certainly presented themselves as a bundle of bollocks.
Sarcastically applauding a referee is crass, not class. Claiming that there is a video showing Gomes behaving badly towards Wits is disingenuity at best and dishonesty at worst...