Violent attack on referee in Turkish league

[marnie]

Not really, apparently. He gave a red card to a player from both teams and Rizespor equalised in the 7th minute of added time.

This is the normal state of football in the Balkans/Turkey/Greece by the way - it's never a team being crap, the referee is always at fault. We've had our fair share of assaulted refs outside stadiums, some of their cars set on fire, stuff like that, just cuz a set of bellends ultras feel wronged because their team is absolute garbage and should've been gifted a goal according to them.

Shameful it's the owner but this kind of thing isn't that shocking at this point - owners often give presser comms/interviews and they all sing the same song - "the refs give the opposition XYZ, those situations would never happen if it was us" and all that, to go with fixed matches.





And VAR is still somehow better here than it is in the Prem.

All the above is true in our part of the world. Remember this one with his gun a few years ago.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

If Kenwright was the Blue he said he was he'd have done that to Clattenburg all them years ago.

 

[marnie]

President has resigned now and rightly so.

 

[Rita_Poon]

President has resigned now and rightly so.

Reckon he's going into pro boxing? One tame shot has hospitalised the ref with a broken neck. He'll be favourite vs Joshua...

 

[marnie]

Reckon he's going into pro boxing? One tame shot has hospitalised the ref with a broken neck. He'll be favourite vs Joshua...

It's nasty in these regionds mate. Watched a derby on the island a few years ago. Two local village teams and fans kicking seven bells out of eachother.Half of them are related or work together. Football was rubbish ......... last game I went to.

 

[PhilM]

Someone in the family enclosure lashed a bottle at the referee on Sunday. I'm surprised we haven't been charged and fined for it, or the press made more of it.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Its probably only a matter of time before this happens here...already trouble brewing in grassroots games.

Who would want to be a ref???

And this was the club president who attacked him!

That question is one of the better explanations for the deterioration in the quality of referees across sports. It's a chicken and egg problem. Did the league offices deliberately undercut the training and development of good referees? Did all the incidents at the grassroots level, and the decline in the level of respect for professional officials by leave professional sports fishing for talent in poorly stocked ponds? Was it both? Which came first?

Even sports that pay people several times the average annual salary in the United States for a part-time job are struggling with the problem.

 

[TonyT65]

Just seen the interview where he's lying in Hozzy bed with a neck brace on !!!... getting filmed whilst adding up his compo

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Shocking tbh.
Remember an amateur ref in Dundee got punched in front of about 30 witnesses....nobody seen a thing.

 

[marnie]

Just seen the interview where he's lying in Hozzy bed with a neck brace on !!!... getting filmed whilst adding up his compo

And so would you if someone lamped yer for doing your job.

 

[TonyT65]

And so would you if someone lamped yer for doing your job.

You're dam right

 

[DualityNSNO]

Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca: "My aim was to react verbally to the referee and spit in his face. The slap I gave would not cause a fracture. After my slap, the referee threw himself on the ground. They immediately removed me from the scene because I have a heart condition.”


lol

 

[Rita_Poon]

Thought it was the roughie-toughie's with the kicks that doled up the black eye?

 

[The binman chronicles]

Absolutely no need for violence on the football pitch just for officiating a game.

...apart from 90% of the PL ones who are blatantly corrupt and deserve a good kicking.

 

[Dharma]

Clattenburg must be counting his blessings.