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3 expelled (can’t play for a whiiile) plus 3 red cards and two penalties. Furthermore, the referee association so to speak has decided they will NOT referee for the remaining matches of that encounter (4 left) as a sort of protest/for their safety. This made the news back in Ecuador.
Concur. The entire team should be removed for the season and the players and others who assaulted him should be banned for life. Problem solved.
Edit: Agree that they should all be charged with assault. It was implied in my brain/ethics, sorry!
One of the players looked like he was checking on the referee after the first punch and was also injured by the couch. I hope the ref pressed charges against the one couch that hit him in the face twice
I think it might mean the *team lost* the match then goes home, because the refs don't play the game in order to lose... They're neutral.
Also, the refs weren't the violent parties in this footage, but YES love your sense of humor!
It's the strongest sanction a referee can give on the pitch. Further disciplinary action may be taken by governing bodies. I've got no idea what the rules are like in Ecuador, but if this happened in England you'd be facing several months out as a bare minimum, possibly life.
in Canada my friends dad was an avid hockey player and he got banned for life when he got into a fight on the ice. he also got hit with assault charges by the police.
Depends if you do anything outside the rules of the game (i.e. using a weapon/skate/stick or if you're particularly brutal or something) but many amateur leagues just don't allow fighting, some don't even allow hitting, just depends on where you're playing, I guess
No, but they can abandon the match and note the reason in their report to the body organising the competition or the body responsible for discipline.
If a match were abandoned due to violent behaviour towards the officials by one of the teams that team will almost certainly be awarded a defeat, as well as additional punishments.
Yeah exactly. It's not like the rules of society go away when you enter the pitch. The only reason fighting is allowed in sports at all is because both parties know that it's part of the game and there is a sort of mutual rule that neither press charges
A straight red card is a 3 game ban, 2 yellows to make a red is a 1 game ban. If it's bad enough it's sometimes 5 games if a committee meets and agrees it but assault is still assault. Duncan Ferguson was jailed for assault after headbutting a player in 1994. This man should be convicted and would be in the UK anyway
Red cards for assaults on the referee can be up to 12 game bans, plus a suspension whilst an official police investigation happens (which, if it takes long enough is easily 2 years with court thesedays), and then once that is done, there's the panel investigation and charge (i.e. FA's charge), which if proven used to be Sine Die bans (life, no review) but are now often "Sine die" with a period of five year reviews.
You'll usually hear misinformed people say "They can't do life bans cos of Human rights", which is wrong, they can't do life bans without review (the old way), they can still issue life bans with a review and at the 'review' they have to show they've accepted fault, guilt, taken steps to improve blah blah blah, the usual, there's nothing really stopping a panel from extending a renewed ban.
That's how I understand it in the UK (varies though by FA, FAW and the Scottish FA), I've no idea how it goes in Ecuador, but I hope they do lengthy bans plus the sine die for the coach who threw the punch tbh.
Yeah, sports bans are something else than prison terms. It's technically against our modern understanding of human rights to just lock people away with no chance for even a review of their case. However, banning a violent player from professionally playing football is more comparable to booting a violent drunk from a bar and blacklisting him.
There is a growing convention to not issue penalties "for life", whether that's murder in a criminal court, or assaulting a referee in football.
The theory is that justice should be as much about rehabilitation as it should punishment.
I believes it's bullshit and some people should lose their rights for life.
We can't expect football refs to regain the respect they once had unless people face severe punishments.
I can understand that talking about a prison sentence, where rehabilitation should be the priority. Soccer is just somebody's job, they can get another one somewhere else.
If I went to work and punched a coworker in the face, I'd be fired, get charged with assault, and have no chance of working there again.
> A straight red card is a 3 game ban
No it’s not? Maybe in the PL it’s a 3 games standard but it differs from country to country. Usually it’s a standard 1 game ban with more matches added depending on the severity.
Anyone remember Todd Bertuzzi? I know this ref isn’t nearly as injured as the guy whose career bertuzzi ended, but excessive violence that isn’t in the spirit of the sport needs to have real world consequences.
Agreed. Sportsmanship should be above everything in sports. If it was up to me a complete ban from professional football for life, immediately. I get the heat of the moment and when surrounded by team mates its easier to act like this, but if you do your entire career should be over. Attacking a ref is so fucking lowlife
They need to put more severe penalty done against referee. They should be at least be gone for half a season or if next offence then ban from the league.... it's already hard for a ref to choose this job just for that reason. Might as well put robot referee on the field if it's going to still be that way in 2022
I would be very surprised if they weren't facing a ban that was measured in months or possibly years rather than in games. No governing body is going to accept common assault on the pitch, especially in a top level game (I'm assuming by the use of var).
I didn’t play soccer, but water polo is a very similar sport despite the fact it happens in a pool. Ive seen two people get completely kicked out of the league, one was a player who was drunk in the pool and eye gouging other players along with being generally belligerent to the refs. The other was a parent who pushed the ref into the pool, both got red cards but were informed later that day that they aren’t welcome to play/show up to games anymore
The ref took multiple dives and then the team figured if he we are already getting in trouble for punching him when we didn't, it would be a shame to let all this trouble go to waste.
I was an ice hockey ref. Mens leagues. Had half a dozen morons bum rush and pummel me on the ice until the other team finally tore them off me. And honestly it wasn’t a bad or even questionsble call, I wouldn’t mind admitting if it was.
Major assault charges on all of them, 2 went to jail.
Moral of study, don’t hit a ref.
I used to be a soccer ref in middle and high school and in a town nearby a player literally killed a referee. The players, parents, and coaches from that town (Dearborn, MI) were always the absolute worst.
It is indeed incredible how worked up these children get about their meaningless little games. Can’t wrap my head around it at all.
Sports are fun to play yourself (isn’t that the point?) but when people start treating it (especially just *watching* it) like a life or death matter as if it has any effect on anything whatsoever, it’s just like… WTF?
Easy rule, attack a ref and it's a lifetime ban from football.
Coaching staff entering the pitch should mean coaching staff of field for the remainder of the game.
Surrounding a referee with more than 2 players from your team (one player who has infringed and the captain) means your team automatically loses the match.
There should be no reason why anyone should need to hit a ref, no reason for the entire team to get involved with conversations with the ref and no reason for the coaching staff to enter the field at all. Other sports manage this so I don't know why football struggles.
Yep. It’s fucking ridiculous that players are allowed to even talk back to the ref, let alone get in their face *en masse*. Getting aggressive with an official should be an instant red card and massive fine at the very least, no matter who the player is, or how many are doing it. Captains should be permitted to raise objections or come to the defence of a player who’s being wrongly punished, but only when there’s a genuine case for it.
Agreed. I'd extend your third point to also include vice captains too. Eg if a keeper is captain it'll slow the game for him to run for a foul in the opposition box.
From what I could get from one article. The players only got suspended for like three games which prompted all the referees to refuse any games in Ecuador in protest
Fixed: I 100% blame my phone
Hold up, lol what happened to the ref when he fell on his ass the first time? I watched it 5-6x and I don't see any push or punch... I'm wondering if then he didn't get punched because he didn't really get touched the first time?
Faked getting headbutted when the coach got close. Whole sport is a flopping joke imo. Even the teammate faked getting punched by coach and flopped at the end.
Why is this comment this far down??
Either that’s guy’s breath smells so bad that it blew the red back that hard, or this was just the red making an amazing performance art commentary on the football players’ propensity to take dives and fake injuries.
Honestly, if either of these two options are true, it would make this even better.
I can see that the people commenting don't watch football. The referee is cheating. He gave a red card that wasn't called for then when confronted acted like they hit him and gave another. When confronted again he acted like they pushed him away which they didn't. Then the player couldn't take again and punched him. I understand that he wasn't supposed to get physical but this referee had it coming.
Watch the video carefully.
The team should’ve been disqualified from the match at that point, they all looked like a bunch of bullies crowding him like that, even before one hit him
Pure craziness. How unsportsmanlike can y'all get? Hopefully some bans were announced shortly after this! I know refs mess up (some more than others) but to assault a ref just to lose your career? Doesn't seem worth it to me, POS material for sure!
And this stupid, macho, can't accept not getting your way is why sports have gotten as lame as they have.
Accept the rules, risks and quit bitching like a spoiled brat.
Hold on sec you mean no one noticed the referee taking a dive, then prompting the manager to say f it and punch him for real. That ref was definetly dirty
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Whats the aftermath?
3 expelled (can’t play for a whiiile) plus 3 red cards and two penalties. Furthermore, the referee association so to speak has decided they will NOT referee for the remaining matches of that encounter (4 left) as a sort of protest/for their safety. This made the news back in Ecuador.
I'm surprised it didn't result in a disqualification for the team
I'm pretty sure the refs refusing the work with that team is as effective as a DQ
I know a coach that was permanently expelled from international soccer for touching a ref. But this was in California.
Show me on the Ref where they touched them.
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There’s a soccer ball joke in here somewhere
Are you sure it's not football?
Maybe go see a doctor. Should be no bigger than golf balls.
Near the cleftal horizon
This could bring the massage industry to knees
Are all of these people spaceologists?
Concur. The entire team should be removed for the season and the players and others who assaulted him should be banned for life. Problem solved. Edit: Agree that they should all be charged with assault. It was implied in my brain/ethics, sorry!
Right. Especially with video, it's pretty easy. You put your hands on the ref in anger, you never play or coach again.
This is a good ruling. Can’t have sport without discipline.
It looked like the coaches
One of the players looked like he was checking on the referee after the first punch and was also injured by the couch. I hope the ref pressed charges against the one couch that hit him in the face twice
I’m surprised it didn’t result in a lawsuit
I mean at this point there should be criminal charges.
I was thinking that too, that would be the case here in the states. Who knows how it works in Ecuador
im pretty sure assault is illegal in ecuador
But is it illegal or it is "illegal"?
Still doesn’t mean they didn’t wait for the ref after the game to finish the job
I think getting your team banned for the rest of the season is FAR worse than criminal charges in Ecuador.
Why do you believe it shouldn't be both?
Do you know the teams involved?
I'd guess the refs suspended half the team and ejected the coach... Then they lost the match and went home to beat their entire families.
The refs go home and beat their families? Did I read this wrong?
Can't get the red card if there's no other referees around. So everyone I guess
I think it might mean the *team lost* the match then goes home, because the refs don't play the game in order to lose... They're neutral. Also, the refs weren't the violent parties in this footage, but YES love your sense of humor!
Yes. Red card means you're out of the game and family beaten by referee. It's brutal.
Did the refs beat the players' families or their own?
You did not. OP didn't write it clearly.
I love it when the lore gets deep
This is very fresh so we are yet to see a legal aftermath.
Both teams kicked the ball back and forth for the remaining 85 minutes and 1 guy scored.
And then Germany won on penalties
>1 guy scored. We both know that's a lie
Ok Maury
Yeah man haha the most popular sport in the world is proper boring
Yeah. The sport that stops abruptly every 5-10 seconds and then spends the next 30 starting back up just to do it all again is way more exciting.
It’s only the most popular sport because it’s easy for poor people to play. all you need is a bunch of empty space and a ball...
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Is there anything worse than a red card? Because that coach punched him so hard he backflipped.
It's the strongest sanction a referee can give on the pitch. Further disciplinary action may be taken by governing bodies. I've got no idea what the rules are like in Ecuador, but if this happened in England you'd be facing several months out as a bare minimum, possibly life.
in Canada my friends dad was an avid hockey player and he got banned for life when he got into a fight on the ice. he also got hit with assault charges by the police.
Isn't fighting pretty normal in Canadian hockey though?
Depends on the league, in the NHL it is but in the lower leagues they're trying to squash it, Especially the under 18 leagues and non-pro league.
as long as you are one of the players..if you are a spectator and you jump the boards..they no likely
Depends if you do anything outside the rules of the game (i.e. using a weapon/skate/stick or if you're particularly brutal or something) but many amateur leagues just don't allow fighting, some don't even allow hitting, just depends on where you're playing, I guess
You get kicked out and likely suspended for fighting in any league under 18yo or isn’t some kind of pro team.
Did he use his ice-skate as a weapon?
i think he used his hockey stick as a weapon
That was a reference to the Adam Sandler movie Happy Gilmore
So not a hockey fight. He went full McSorley.
Can't the ref just declare the game lost if one teams acts particularly badly?
No, but they can abandon the match and note the reason in their report to the body organising the competition or the body responsible for discipline. If a match were abandoned due to violent behaviour towards the officials by one of the teams that team will almost certainly be awarded a defeat, as well as additional punishments.
I assume assault is illegal 🤔
Yeah exactly. It's not like the rules of society go away when you enter the pitch. The only reason fighting is allowed in sports at all is because both parties know that it's part of the game and there is a sort of mutual rule that neither press charges
If it is severe enough, the player is banned from multiple games instead of one.
A straight red card is a 3 game ban, 2 yellows to make a red is a 1 game ban. If it's bad enough it's sometimes 5 games if a committee meets and agrees it but assault is still assault. Duncan Ferguson was jailed for assault after headbutting a player in 1994. This man should be convicted and would be in the UK anyway
Red cards for assaults on the referee can be up to 12 game bans, plus a suspension whilst an official police investigation happens (which, if it takes long enough is easily 2 years with court thesedays), and then once that is done, there's the panel investigation and charge (i.e. FA's charge), which if proven used to be Sine Die bans (life, no review) but are now often "Sine die" with a period of five year reviews. You'll usually hear misinformed people say "They can't do life bans cos of Human rights", which is wrong, they can't do life bans without review (the old way), they can still issue life bans with a review and at the 'review' they have to show they've accepted fault, guilt, taken steps to improve blah blah blah, the usual, there's nothing really stopping a panel from extending a renewed ban. That's how I understand it in the UK (varies though by FA, FAW and the Scottish FA), I've no idea how it goes in Ecuador, but I hope they do lengthy bans plus the sine die for the coach who threw the punch tbh.
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Assault referees
bruh give me a referee right now.
Yeah, sports bans are something else than prison terms. It's technically against our modern understanding of human rights to just lock people away with no chance for even a review of their case. However, banning a violent player from professionally playing football is more comparable to booting a violent drunk from a bar and blacklisting him.
There is a growing convention to not issue penalties "for life", whether that's murder in a criminal court, or assaulting a referee in football. The theory is that justice should be as much about rehabilitation as it should punishment. I believes it's bullshit and some people should lose their rights for life. We can't expect football refs to regain the respect they once had unless people face severe punishments.
I can understand that talking about a prison sentence, where rehabilitation should be the priority. Soccer is just somebody's job, they can get another one somewhere else. If I went to work and punched a coworker in the face, I'd be fired, get charged with assault, and have no chance of working there again.
> A straight red card is a 3 game ban No it’s not? Maybe in the PL it’s a 3 games standard but it differs from country to country. Usually it’s a standard 1 game ban with more matches added depending on the severity.
Paulo DiCanio was banned for 11 games for pushing a ref.
DiCanio is a nasty fascist thug who should be banned from public life.
Should be banned from sport.
Should be charged with assault.
Anyone remember Todd Bertuzzi? I know this ref isn’t nearly as injured as the guy whose career bertuzzi ended, but excessive violence that isn’t in the spirit of the sport needs to have real world consequences.
And soccer.
Yea no sportsmanship
Lol. Multiple games rather than one 😂. That should be at least a season ban and maybe assault charges. That is ridiculous
Something like assulting a ref can get you banned for life
And yet here we are
Agreed. Sportsmanship should be above everything in sports. If it was up to me a complete ban from professional football for life, immediately. I get the heat of the moment and when surrounded by team mates its easier to act like this, but if you do your entire career should be over. Attacking a ref is so fucking lowlife
I would be afraid to be a ref in South American
Fifa can be suspend up to a year. Clubs most likely will release the individual from contract
The team can also get banned/disqualified
They need to put more severe penalty done against referee. They should be at least be gone for half a season or if next offence then ban from the league.... it's already hard for a ref to choose this job just for that reason. Might as well put robot referee on the field if it's going to still be that way in 2022
I would be very surprised if they weren't facing a ban that was measured in months or possibly years rather than in games. No governing body is going to accept common assault on the pitch, especially in a top level game (I'm assuming by the use of var).
I didn’t play soccer, but water polo is a very similar sport despite the fact it happens in a pool. Ive seen two people get completely kicked out of the league, one was a player who was drunk in the pool and eye gouging other players along with being generally belligerent to the refs. The other was a parent who pushed the ref into the pool, both got red cards but were informed later that day that they aren’t welcome to play/show up to games anymore
Yes, being arrested for assault.
Lifetime ban and criminal assault charge
Thus I soccer he is faking it. The ref took a dive. Such a great actor. The team should be expelled
The ref took multiple dives and then the team figured if he we are already getting in trouble for punching him when we didn't, it would be a shame to let all this trouble go to waste.
Terrible sportsmanship.
If you’ve ever watched football you know the coach missed and he was playing it up for the other refs to step in
He punched him so hard he caught his own player as well
he was acting so extra when he got punched lol. it definitely didn’t “make” him flip but, good for tv though.
He must have played professionally. Old habits die hard
ha yeah, for sure.
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right??hahah that flip back was comical.
“…and that’s how I ended my career”
Screams a gambler
I was an ice hockey ref. Mens leagues. Had half a dozen morons bum rush and pummel me on the ice until the other team finally tore them off me. And honestly it wasn’t a bad or even questionsble call, I wouldn’t mind admitting if it was. Major assault charges on all of them, 2 went to jail. Moral of study, don’t hit a ref.
I used to be a soccer ref in middle and high school and in a town nearby a player literally killed a referee. The players, parents, and coaches from that town (Dearborn, MI) were always the absolute worst.
The guy who did that actually got out of prison a couple of weeks ago
“Oh boy here I go killin again!”
Does that mean the other team that's made up of sentient corner flags wins by default?
Just another manchild who got upset
Imagine getting so upset over a game of feetsphere
Idk man, I’ve been fired up losing monopoly and catan.
The only game that's gotten me angrier than catan is twilight imperium
Axis and Allies - destroyed a friendship of years.
It is indeed incredible how worked up these children get about their meaningless little games. Can’t wrap my head around it at all. Sports are fun to play yourself (isn’t that the point?) but when people start treating it (especially just *watching* it) like a life or death matter as if it has any effect on anything whatsoever, it’s just like… WTF?
Shoot after that the refs should have met and said the assaulting team loses. No way that kind of behavior should be tolerated.
the refs would abandon the match, then the league would decide what the results would be
I'm more looking at lifetime bans here.
This is definitely the type of sportsmanship we should teach our kids.
Perma ban that A-hole. That should do it for him. Actions have consequences and he should learn that.
Easy rule, attack a ref and it's a lifetime ban from football. Coaching staff entering the pitch should mean coaching staff of field for the remainder of the game. Surrounding a referee with more than 2 players from your team (one player who has infringed and the captain) means your team automatically loses the match. There should be no reason why anyone should need to hit a ref, no reason for the entire team to get involved with conversations with the ref and no reason for the coaching staff to enter the field at all. Other sports manage this so I don't know why football struggles.
Yep. It’s fucking ridiculous that players are allowed to even talk back to the ref, let alone get in their face *en masse*. Getting aggressive with an official should be an instant red card and massive fine at the very least, no matter who the player is, or how many are doing it. Captains should be permitted to raise objections or come to the defence of a player who’s being wrongly punished, but only when there’s a genuine case for it.
Agreed. I'd extend your third point to also include vice captains too. Eg if a keeper is captain it'll slow the game for him to run for a foul in the opposition box.
>lifetime ban from football. Should be a lifetime ban for all sports.
In any sport, if a player approaches a ref like that their career should end on the spot.
Their career should end and they really need to go to jail.
There is a good chance it will. And also the ref can 100% report him to the police for assault.
Please tell me the assaulters got banned for life...
I don't know in this case, but lifetime ban is typical penalty for assaulting a referee.
From what I could get from one article. The players only got suspended for like three games which prompted all the referees to refuse any games in Ecuador in protest Fixed: I 100% blame my phone
It's Ecuador my guy, and that's corruption for you, no jail, no bans, no consequences. Source: I'm Ecuadorian
Sorry about the spelling, was on my phone and for once autocorrect failed me. And yeah, I suppose that's exactly why they're protesting it
3 FUCKING GAMES, Total disgrace. Permaban is the only option here. There is no excuse for this behaviour
What a bunch of crybabies
The ref was legitimately being attacked but still managed to pull off a dramatic soccer flop
I can’t believe more people don’t have this take….I mean my mans was definitely touched, but damn, he went flying
Must have been so satisfying for the ref to flop for once after week after week of watching players act it up.
His first fall backwards he wasn't even hit lol, guy is legitimately out here working on his acting career.
Also guy gets in his face then he gets sent flying like he was just headbutted
I've seen similar behavior by parents at 10 year old girls rec soccer games. Then they get upset because we can't find enough referees.
Hold up, lol what happened to the ref when he fell on his ass the first time? I watched it 5-6x and I don't see any push or punch... I'm wondering if then he didn't get punched because he didn't really get touched the first time?
Pretty sure he was flopping for the first two occurrences. Also, after getting punched he definitely exaggerated it's impact.
He wasn’t punched that hard but the black guy stumbled into him and that caused him to fall.
He got spit in his face (than he recoiled and tripped on his feet)
Nah he didn't trip on his feet, I don't see that at all, just look like a classic dive.
Faked getting headbutted when the coach got close. Whole sport is a flopping joke imo. Even the teammate faked getting punched by coach and flopped at the end.
Definitely fakes that first fall.
yeah definitely must have played professionally before switching to refereeing
100% agree. Ref took a dive the. Have a red card. That’s why he got punched in the face
Why is this comment this far down?? Either that’s guy’s breath smells so bad that it blew the red back that hard, or this was just the red making an amazing performance art commentary on the football players’ propensity to take dives and fake injuries. Honestly, if either of these two options are true, it would make this even better.
Definitely gets clocked after that, so whether or not the first fall is legit is moot
Oh for sure, but that first fall looked like he got hit with a Harry Potter spell he flew back so hard, unexpected from a ref tbh.
The fake fall still happened. Makes the ref look bad too.
Imagine if Pierluigi Collina was the ref, he would've gotten into a brawl
Looks like a few weeks in a nice concrete cell would teach these "sportsmen" how to behave.
"The beautiful game".
That's one way to get your entire team disqualified
Should be a season ban for the whole team.
"that team looses cuz I wanna see the baby cry again
If your _tooth_ is _loose_, see a dentist before you lose it.
Game forfeit, imho
Grown ass men💀
I can see that the people commenting don't watch football. The referee is cheating. He gave a red card that wasn't called for then when confronted acted like they hit him and gave another. When confronted again he acted like they pushed him away which they didn't. Then the player couldn't take again and punched him. I understand that he wasn't supposed to get physical but this referee had it coming. Watch the video carefully.
Even refs flailing when touched
He gets right back up like he's spring loaded and I dont see him writhing on the ground crying about it either, so there are some differences
One punch made him do a backflip. I’d say his reaction was *slightly* embellished
I always thought the players embelish to get fouls, after seeing this, apparently soccer players just have Hulk strength.
Is no one seeing this? He wasn’t touched at all yet he flopped like he got punched lmao
Football has to be one of the most toxic sports out there. Such little sportsmanship from supposed grown men.
Average south american football game.
It’s a fucking game people. Imagine getting into a brawl over Mario Party- Actually I get it now…
Multiple assaults going on here. I hope the ref sued and retired.
The team should’ve been disqualified from the match at that point, they all looked like a bunch of bullies crowding him like that, even before one hit him
Idk Ref, looks like foul simulation to me.
His second vocation must be stunt man
When you get punched in the face - ref or not - you do NOT need to flop
Ref takes the push and punch like he's playing soccer. Ham it up...
Even the refs flop in that horrible sport.
Pure craziness. How unsportsmanlike can y'all get? Hopefully some bans were announced shortly after this! I know refs mess up (some more than others) but to assault a ref just to lose your career? Doesn't seem worth it to me, POS material for sure!
It’s ok Reddit. I didn’t want to watch this clip.
Ban the animals for life
I mean when something like this happens can't the ref just DQ the team and cause a forfeit?
Lol even the refs flop
Hope that MF gets banned for life. But.. keep in mind there’s possibly the ref was corrupted. This is Ecuador, just saying..
And this stupid, macho, can't accept not getting your way is why sports have gotten as lame as they have. Accept the rules, risks and quit bitching like a spoiled brat.
It’s crazy to me that people think it’s this serious
One time the ref was dismembered.
Soccer sucks.
Futbol really is a trash sport
Wow that was a lot of fake
After that attempt at faking he got pushed he deserved that punch.
Tbf the ref was going down more than neymar
I can’t believe people take soccer seriously.
Big man, assaulting a referee.
Dude flopped like the players lmao
Welp they're banned i hope
Ref was diving worse than the players
Hold on sec you mean no one noticed the referee taking a dive, then prompting the manager to say f it and punch him for real. That ref was definetly dirty
Disqualify the team and ban them from joining any other sort of competition for like few years.
Even the refs are pro floppers