Violent attack on referee in Turkish league

[Walken]

Rich entitled bellend, should be banned for life from all stadiums

 

[Walken]

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!

You see people making excuses for it aswell just because their team lost. As you say, these sort of actions have effect on grassroots volenteers where there are no police or cameras

 

[Walken]

It is troubling and completely disgraceful but the likes of the PGMOL don’t help them, given all the cameras and tech available yet they still can’t referee consistently and both try to justify poor decisions / ineptitude with complete BS and fail to demonstrate any accountability.
Without some sort of change it is inevitable her too I fear (fans rather than club officials mind!)
Suspect their immediate response here will be to brandish cards like confetti to anyone bar the captains approaching them (unless it’s the scab 6 of course)

Of course, victim shaming is too many peoples first thought.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Rich entitled bellend, should be banned for life from all stadiums

And what about the club president??

Hey ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

No but, I agree of course, I just couldn't help myself

 

[DualityNSNO]

Why was he so mad that he hit him?

That has to be a next level bad decision from a ref to get someone that angry (either that or the dude is a psycho)

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.

 

[chrismpw]

That owner was probably peeved at what he'd paid the ref, but still didn't get the result he wanted.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Of course, victim shaming is too many peoples first thought.

Who is victim shaming?

 

[BlueStevie35]

You see people making excuses for it aswell just because their team lost. As you say, these sort of actions have effect on grassroots volenteers where there are no police or cameras

The amount of none-English PL fans calling for scenes like that on our refs on every account reporting on this story is disturbing

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Spot on mate, if that happened on the street, they’d all be locked up and charged, no ifs or buts.

I think there was a few buts, they gave him a few kicks too like but there was definitely some buts.

 

[Rita_Poon]

He's got a neck brace on in a hospital bed on the news.

 

[BlueStevie35]

He's got a neck brace on in a hospital bed on the news.

Likely whiplash from the punch

 

[Milk]

Greece are playing all sports behind closed doors until February at the earliest due to increased violence. Never mind football, they had a punch up at a basketball game last week

 

[Preki]

Greece are playing all sports behind closed doors until February at the earliest due to increased violence. Never mind football, they had a punch up at a basketball game last week

Have a look at Greek and Turkish basketball fans on YouTube. Their mental.

 

[TyphooToffee]

It is troubling and completely disgraceful but the likes of the PGMOL don’t help them, given all the cameras and tech available yet they still can’t referee consistently and both try to justify poor decisions / ineptitude with complete BS and fail to demonstrate any accountability.
Without some sort of change it is inevitable her too I fear (fans rather than club officials mind!)
Suspect their immediate response here will be to brandish cards like confetti to anyone bar the captains approaching them (unless it’s the scab 6 of course)

In all honesty the only things that stick in my mind pre-VAR are Geoff Hurst's 1966 World Cup Final goal and Frank Lampard's yard-over-the-line goal against Germany. The watch the refs wear stops anything like that happening again so why they continue with a system that is almost as much swings and roundabouts as just relying on the referee is beyond me.

Let's get back to days when the referee was solely in charge and the only punches thrown were between players.

 

[Chozz]

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

The glorifying of "ultras" by lad bible types in recent years is embarrassing. And what's worse is the acceptance of it by teams themselves. The absurdity of players bowing post match to a group of black clad bellends with megaphones, all because they're precious team lost a game and they feel the need to berate and belittle them...it's insane.

Professional footballers live in a bubble and earn staggering amounts of wedge...but not sure how we've got to the point where its cool for them to cower to these typically obnoxious and deluded sets of fans. They're existence should not be commended as they only incite violence and normalise hooliganism.

And it's spreading beyond those areas you mentioned. I witnessed a league of ireland match this season, where Bohs players trudged over to away fans post match in Oriel Park (Dundalk) to be dressed down by some gobsh*te standing up on the advertising boards after a heavy defeat. Embarrassing.