22 February 2016

Chaos in Turkey as reffere saw red

Some funny and amazing scenes happened tonight in the Turkish Spor Toto Super Lig. Trabzonspor barely finished its away game against Galatasaray with just 7 players on the pitch. Under FIFA regulations the game will be interrupted if one team has a maximum of six players in the game. If five players are sent off the game is forfeited.
The hosts won this game 2:1, with Lukas Podolski scored the first goal for Galatasaray when the visitors was one play down at the time. After that equalizing goal from the German, three more players has been sent-off in the dressing room, so that the Istanbul based club scored its winning goal from the penalty spot in the eighty-ninth minute from Selcuk Inan. While Ozer Hurmaci and Aykut Demir were both sent off for two yellow cards, Luis Pedro Cavanda and Salih Dursun saw direct red three minutes from time. While the Belgian Cavanda was sent off because of the penalty he made earlier, where the winning goal came later on, at the same time his teammate Dursun was sent off for another, hilarious reason.
In the eighty-seventh minute of the game, Umut Bulut appealed for the penalty with fist gesticulation. The Black Sea team obviously lost nerves at that moment and their protest goes off the rails very, very quickly. First, Cavanda shoves the referee for which he is correctly given a red card. During that skirmish, the referee drops his card, the 'unfortunate' Dursun picks it up and with no thinking shows it to the referee in protest!

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