Football referees

And you will be judged

6 funny episodes when judges were in the spotlight

Being a football referee is an extremely difficult task. It is believed that a good judge is the one who is never seen. And if all the spectators begin to look not at the football players, but at the "man in black", apparently, it smells of kerosene. the site recalled several funny episodes when referees were in the spotlight.

Deleted myself

As surprising as it may sound, there are two known cases at once when the referees showed a red card to themselves. The first was Andy Wayne, refereeing the Peterborough North End v Royal Mail match. The first ran up to the goalkeeper after his next protest, but stopped in time and decided to remove himself, so as not to bring the matter to assault. But his colleague, another hot Briton Melvin Sylvester, at the match "Southampton Arms" - "Hurstbourne Tarrant British Legion" could not restrain himself. After one of the players pushed him to the ground, Melvin first knocked out the player, and then sent himself to the locker room.

Good arbiter

A funny story related to refereeing happened with midfielder Roman Zobnin, who plays for Dynamo Moscow, which is supported by VTB Bank. “It was back in Togliatti, when I played for the local Academy,” says Roman. - We have experienced Dmitry Godunok, who is known in Russia for his performances for FC Moskva, in our squad together with young people, graduates of the Konoplev Academy. So, Dima had a knee injury, besides, he was “hanging” on the card: one more “yellow card” - and he misses the next game. The team decided this: let him receive a yellow card during the game, he will be replaced, and during the disqualification Dima will have time to heal. It turns out that we will kill two birds with one stone. "

“Godunok did everything competently,” grins Zobnin. - He left the field, and then appeared without the permission of the chief referee. By the rules, this is a confident yellow. One of the players has already gone to warm up to replace Godunka. But the referee was silent. Then Dima began to cover it with a three-story mat so that if I were a judge, I would have removed it altogether. And that one - zero reaction! In general, Godunok played a whole half with a sore knee. And only in the room under the stands did he "agree", and he was given the long-awaited "mustard plaster". He was probably the kindest judge in my entire career. "

Escape to the wedding

The arbitrators in Germany are much more principled and tougher. Something similar happened there in the late 1970s. The famous German footballer Hansi Müller, who was distinguished by exceptional correctness, in one of the matches, unexpectedly for the fans and all the players, entered into a squabble with the referee. The arbiter did not differ in loyalty and, despite the reputation of the offender, slapped him with a red card. And only later it turned out that Müller did it on purpose, since the club's management refused him a vacation. And for the vacation he had good reasons: he had to attend ... his own wedding. What won't you do for the bride?

Indiscriminately

The opposite happens more often in football. Usually, you don't have to ask the arbiter for a card for a long time: they often want to indicate themselves that they are getting their bread for a reason. Here is one of the Mexican League matches of the late 1970s. A certain referee Gonzalez made history by showing 26 (!) Red cards in the match, given that only 22 people can be on the field at a time. After sending off several players for rough play, both teams rushed to find out who was right after all. And when the debate turned into a general brawl, everyone who was on the field had to be removed. And the coaches who joined the fight were not affected by the exception: they were removed along with the players.

Referee scorer

If in South America everyone is used to aggression on football, then Spain is famous for its beauty and technique. And the referees are no exception. An interesting incident occurred in the mid-60s in a match between two Spanish teams - Rione and La Catina. Shortly after the start of the meeting, the ball, bouncing off the referee's foot, ended up in the home net. The referee, despite the protests of spectators and football players, counted the goal. Time passed, the owners could not recoup, which is why the situation in the stands and on the field gradually heated up. The referee feverishly pondered plans to save the raging fans from the reprisals ... and suddenly, three minutes before the end of the game, the ball hits him in the head and a moment later appears in the goal of the guests. The referee-scorer and the real hero of the meeting, in a state of shock, were carried off the field by the players of both teams.

Undress on the field

If you think that funny episodes with judges are a thing of the past or, at worst, happen somewhere far away: here is a case from our reality. In the match Russian Premier League“Dynamo” - “Amkar” in May 2005 the referee of the meeting Vladimir Pettai forced the guest footballer Andrei Kobenko, who came on as a substitute at the very end ... to take off his underwear in front of the entire stadium! And it was just a matter of color: according to the rules, the underpants under the underpants must match the shape in terms of color, while in Perm they turned out to be black, not white. Kobenko was then very worried if someone had filmed him on video. But everything seemed to work out.

Foggy Albion

Few already remember the friendly match between London's Arsenal and Moscow's Dynamo at the Wine Hart Lane stadium in the British capital in the winter of 1945. And those who suddenly saw this spectacle on archival tapes will remember that there was such a fog on the field that the players did not see, not only the ball, but also their teammates. The players tried to be indignant, but the referee decided to continue the match in the hope that the fog will clear up. As a result, the participants in the meeting several times mistook the judge Nikolai Latyshev for their player, sending him several passes. In order not to introduce confusion into the game, during the break, the Soviet referee changed his dark uniform to a light one. The fog was such that the injured goalkeeper of the English team could only be found by his screams.

And in general - a real torment for football players and referees. The field and stands are often shrouded in a thick veil of fog. After one of these games, which ended with a score of 3: 3, the famous striker George Odz laughed: "I remember exactly that I scored five goals, but I don't know which goal." At the end of this game, the referee discovered that each team had 18 players. Basically, the red card record could be updated. But who would have seen them?

French futsal player Ali Bedredin prompted for 91 years sport.tochka.net remember the ridiculous disqualifications in the history of sports and create a kind of Top 5 funny disqualifications and their reasons.

After all, usually punishments are quite fair, but the reasons that led to them often cause a variety of emotions - a smile, bewilderment, and sometimes sadness.

1. Rodolfo Garcia (soccer, Argentina)

In 2008, Argentine footballer Rodolfo Garcia, playing for the Ecuadorian club Espoli, was disqualified for striptease on the field. It all started with the fact that during one of the matches, the football player ignored the referee's request to tuck in the shirt, after which the referee showed him a red card. Garcia's reaction was very peculiar - he lowered his shorts and showed the referee and the thousands of people gathered in the stadium, his male pride.

2. Andy Wayne, Melvin Sylvester (soccer, England)

Perhaps, there are two unique cases in football (and indeed in sports), when the referees removed themselves from the field. These mega-fair arbiters are the Englishmen Andy Wayne and Melvin Sylvester. Both served at different times in one of the lower English leagues.

In Wayne's case, the goalkeeper, who disagreed with the referee's scoring decision, entered into an argument with him. Wayne supported a heated discussion, threw the whistle on the field and began using profanity to prove his case to the goalkeeper.

After that, Wayne showed himself a red card and stopped the match. The referee explained his act after the game as follows: “My actions were absolutely unprofessional.

Sylvester did a similar thing. After a series of attacks from the football player, the referee hit him in the face three times, and then left the field, showing himself a red card. Unlike the first case, here the match continued - one of the fans was acting as an arbiter.

Sylvester was fined "already" 20 pounds and was disqualified for a month and a half. By the way, the judge was still outraged that he was punished so harshly.

3. Dzakhon Kurbanov (boxing, Tajikistan)

Tajik boxer Dzakhon Kurbanov was disqualified for what during the fight? finals at the Olympics in Beijing bit his rival from Kazakhstan Erkebulan Shinaliev on the shoulder.

Perhaps, the Tajik was prompted to such a "feat" by the fact that Evander Holyfield, who at one time became a victim of another "man-eating boxer" Mike Tyson, was watching his fight from the stands. "Iron Mike", who has forgotten, bit off Holyfield's earlobe.

4. Sven Kramer (speed skating, Holland)

The Winter Olympics in Vancouver was rich in "abnormal" situations. Therefore, it is not surprising that in our rating she left a double mark at once.

So, the Dutch skater Sven Kramer is already in the rank Olympic champion Vancouver at a distance of 5 thousand meters, was preparing to repeat his success at twice the distance. But the ridiculous mistake left him not only without a second “gold”, but generally led to disqualification.

The fact is that during the race, Kramer, 8 laps before the finish, mixed up the tracks, thereby violating the rules, and received a disqualification. The Dutchman found out about her only when he finished, while showing the best time among all athletes.

Although - this is not so much the athlete's mistake as his coach's, because it was he who shouted to Kramer to turn off onto the wrong path.

5. Leonid Kornienko (biathlon, Belarus)

A similar situation happened at the same Olympics in Vancouver with the Belarusian biathlete Leonid Kornienko during the relay. He ran at the last stage and confidently took 2nd place, but at the decisive moment for some reason he did not go along the outer finishing circle, but turned to the inner one, where the baton was passed to him.

The Belarusian realized his mistake too late and grabbed his head. But this did not save the Belarusian team from disqualification.

On July 29, exactly 50 years ago, Graham Poll was born - a football referee, famous for being the first in history to show three yellow cards to one player in one game. In honor of his anniversary, "Sobesednik.ru" recalled other unexpected, ridiculous and controversial decisions of the judges, thanks to which the most popular game in the world is even more interesting to watch.

1. The judge is strict and fair. In relation to yourself

English referees Andy Wayne and Melvin Sylvester showed us at different times two cases, unique not only for football, but also for sport in general, of uncompromising strictness towards ourselves. Realizing that their refereeing did not work out, these two conscientious people simply ... removed themselves from the field! This happened during the regular English minor league matches.

In Wayne's case, the goalkeeper, who disagreed with the referee's scoring decision, entered into an argument with him. Instead of shutting up a footballer who disagreed with him, the referee simply continued to ardently prove his case with a yellow card. In the course went obscene gestures and profanity. Realizing that he got excited, Wayne showed himself a red card and stopped the match. The referee explained his act after the game as follows: “My actions were absolutely unprofessional.

Sylvester did a similar thing. After a series of attacks from the football player, the referee hit him in the face three times, and then left the field, showing himself a red card. Unlike the first case, here the match continued - one of the fans was acting as an arbiter.

It is a pity that there are only two such stories: if all the referees were so strict with themselves, you see, the fans would forever forget the famous "referee for soap".

2. Never swing at the judge. Even as a joke

During the derby "Werder Bremen" - "Hamburg" young and hot player Marko Arnautovic received an unremarkable yellow card for unsporting behavior. To his misfortune, some footballer threw a ball at Marco's feet after the yellow player was discharged. Apparently, wanting to relieve the tension after the unpleasant mustard plaster, Arnautovich jokingly pretended that he would now launch a shot at the judge. The referee stood at this time with his back to him, but with a peripheral vision (if only they knew how to notice goals when necessary), he saw something unkind in his direction. Marco immediately pretended that there was nothing and even moved two meters away from the judge. But referee Torsten Kienhefer just from his appearance realized that the player had just made a joke and, without thinking twice, removed him from the field. Many years later, the participants in this strange episode admitted that they forgave each other. One for a joke, the other for an offensive deletion.

3. Red card for "ancestral blood"

This mysterious episode happened quite recently: in May last year, the player of the Moscow “Spartak” Emmanuel Emenike was sent off in the match with “Zenith” for ... a gesture of gratitude to his parents. Having scored a beautiful and decisive goal, the African ran - attention - to the stands of his fans, patting himself with one hand through the veins of the other hand as he ran. Rostov referee Vladimir Kazmenko, obviously, decided that this gesture meant something indecent, immediately jumped to the joyful Emenika and showed him a red card. What exactly this strange gesture means, we do not undertake to judge, however, in favor of the Nigerian is the fact that if he wanted to offend someone, he would not run to his tribunes. In addition, the same gesture before him in the Champions League match was demonstrated by Samuel Eto’o - with impunity. Emmanuel and Samuel later explained that patting themselves in their veins means gratitude for the blood given by their ancestors. So, maybe Judge Kazmenko showed blood (that is, a red card) for blood?

4. Sick - there is nothing to run across the field!

It was also last spring. Commentators dubbed this case the strangest red card in the history of Ukrainian football. Denis Garmash, midfielder of Kiev "Dynamo", during a corner was hit in the back of the head from an opponent. Lost consciousness, fell. “The blow was deliberate, I fell, but the referee for some reason ignored this violation, although he allowed the doctors to enter the field. I was in shock from the blow and, frankly, did not immediately understand that Wax was asking me to leave the field. And when he came to his senses a little and figured out what he wanted, he immediately went to the sideline, "the deleted player later said. - At this time, our masseur has not left the field yet, and I did not even think that at this moment the referee could resume the game. I ran to the sideline. Let me emphasize: I ran, and did not go for a walk, which would allow me to accuse me of wasting time. But the referee went in my direction and issued a second warning. I asked him: "For what?" - "For entering the field without permission." "But I never left him!" - I object. "You will watch the video later," he said, and with a repeated gesture demanded to leave the lawn. Hence the lesson for good fellow football players: if you are in a state of shock after a dastardly blow from your opponent, you are lying on the lawn, there is nothing to pretend to be smart and try to continue the game according to the rules. You look, lie down for yourself Denis a little longer, the judge would not have done anything with him. As you know, someone who is lying down is not beaten. But the runner can easily show the red one.

5. I believe, Lord, in the unlawfulness of my decision

We will conclude our selection with one very instructive case. Football is not just a game - it is, as they say, something more. Second religion. And once, in the literal sense, it was not without the word of God. In 1957, in Germany, a few seconds before the end of a football match, the winning goal was scored against one of the teams. At the same time, the referee did not notice that the attacker touched the ball with his hand, and counted the goal. Then a local priest entered the field and began loudly exhorting the winning team to confess how it was. The shepherd's words had an effect. The footballers admitted that they had scored the ball incorrectly. The referee canceled the goal and the meeting ended in a draw.

Name the match in which the referee sent himself off the field) and got the best answer

Answer from Petrovich ™ [guru]
An unusual reason did not allow the match between the teams of the amateur, or, as it is also called, the “Sunday” league of England, between the Peterborough North End and the Royal Mail, to be played out. Referee serving the match Andy Wayne in the 63rd minute sent himself off the field, showing himself a red card.
This event, unique in the history of world football, was preceded by the following sequence of events. In the 63rd minute, the Royal Mail scored a goal against Peterborough goalkeeper Richard McGuffin, thus leading the score - 2: 1. However, McGuffin, believing that the ball was scored in violation of the rules, attacked the referee with criticism.
Wayne did not remain in debt. The 39-year-old referee, whose main job is driving trailers, ran up to McGuffin and, profusely using profanity, told him to shut up. Then, as if having come to his senses, the referee took out a red card, but presented it not to the goalkeeper, but to himself, after which he blew the whistle to the end of the game and walked off the field.
“After all this, I had no moral right to stay on the field, because if the player did the way I did, then I had to remove him. I couldn’t hold back my emotions, and therefore endured my own fair punishment, ”Wayne later explained.
Now the Football Association of England is carefully studying this incident, the referee himself justifies his failure by a series of troubles that befell him and his family. Within a short period of time, Wayne learned that his wife had cancer, buried a close friend who died of a heart attack at the age of 38, and literally on the eve of the match his father-in-law died. Here you will inevitably fall.
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Answer from Vlad Abdullin[master]
Andy Wayne

Answer from Poker face[guru]
I do not remember. But the meaning was that he nakootrovat one of the players for flagrant rudeness and assault

Answer from Natalia Oskolkova[guru]
Th, was that really ????

Answer from Pticcc[guru]
Surely in some 3rd division of the Hungarian championship)

Answer from Irina Bernatskaya[newbie]
hmm there was such a match I don’t remember who was against whom
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