Referees invariably favor the home side...

Lokomotiv face Terek Grozny on Saturday in the Chechen side"s first game since they rescued a point against Dynamo Moscow with a late, late penalty that saw the away side appealing to UEFA and the state prosecutor over the decision,

The soft penalty, awarded in the 95th minute, was widely criticized by leading Russian football pundits.

The match was not the first in Grozny to have attracted allegations of corruption, with last year"s match between Terek and Krylya Sovetov drawing accusations of match-fixing. The then-head of the Russian Football Union, current Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, said he was "ashamed" for the guests. Terek won the match 3-2.

"We"ll have to face our opponents and a biased referee," Russian international Torbinsky said. "It"s always like that in Grozny. Why, I don"t know."

"You could say we"ll have to play against 12 Terek players," he added.

In last year"s corresponding fixture, which Terek won 2-1, referee Alexei Kovalev

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