More than just a game?

[Goat]

An Arsenal fan in football-mad Kenya hanged himself wearing his beloved team's shirt after their defeat to Manchester United in the Champions League.


..Like elsewhere across Africa, Kenyans pack bars for Premier League and Champions League matches, especially those involving Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool.

Suleiman Omondi, 29, was found hanged at his home in a middle-class Nairobi estate shortly after leaving distraught from the pub where he had watched Arsenal lose 3-1 in their Champions League semi-final at the Emirates on Tuesday.

"He took some drinks and broke down in tears within the final minutes of the match," a fellow bar patron, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.

Police said they were called to Omondi's house on Wednesday morning. "What we are gathering is this suicide is related to the Arsenal and Manchester match," local Embakasi area police chief David Bunei said.

Bar attendants said they had to intervene after Omondi lunged at a man who suggested Arsenal would not recover from conceding two early goals. They also lost the first leg 1-0.

Brawls are common in Kenya during football matches and there have been other related suicides reported in the past.


Champions League - Arsenal fan hangs himself - Yahoo! Eurosport UK

 

[toffeestillidie]

real shame, i'm all for passion, and i myself have found entire weekends ruined after everton have lost, but its still very sad

i somehow feel there was more to it, maybe he had put one two many wagers on it?

 

[Cal]

**** off to Kenya, the cities all ours.

 

[bluebloodinmyveins]

**** off to Kenya, the cities all ours.

 

[Kirsten]

**** off to Kenya, the cities all ours.

******* hell

In all seriousness though, like someone else said, I take it very seriously and it does ruin weekends sometimes, but I wouldn't hang myself, especially if we were beaten by a better team!

 

[Gerard_Francis]

real shame, i'm all for passion, and i myself have found entire weekends ruined after everton have lost, but its still very sad

i somehow feel there was more to it, maybe he had put one two many wagers on it?

A lot of unstable guys over there, frequent reports of religious sect massacres, but I’m surprised to read this. Your right, he must have had some other serious issues

 

[Dutch Toffee]

**** off to Kenya, the cities all ours.

Sorry, had to laugh reading that, even if it's a sad story really. Football results can get me down immensly. Now not as bad as in my younger years, but I never felt like committing suicide over the outcome of a match. Has to be something menrally wrong in the first place, I guess.