Coach shot dead for questioning ref

Victor

Whatever about being blind or not, the referee certainly had a good aim.

http://home.eircom.net/content/reuters/uNews/3661827?view=Standard

Coach shot dead for questioning ref
From:Reuters
Sunday, 25 July, 2004

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African soccer referee pulled a gun and shot dead a coach who questioned one of his rulings, police say.

Inspector Mali Govender of the Grahamstown police in the Eastern Cape province said a fight broke out after the referee gave a yellow warning card to a player in a local match on Saturday.

"There was an altercation...and the referee became threatened when the other team approached him because they were angry," Govender said. "So he pulled out a gun and killed the coach of the visiting team."

Govender said the coach died on the pitch while the referee fled the scene. Police were confident of making an arrest soon, she added.

South Africa has one of the world's highest murder rates with an alarming 47.4 murders per 100,000 people, or eight times the figure for the United States.

Agent Smith

thats ****ed up

CuLT

Originally posted by agent smith
thats ****ed up

That's just not cricket.




















In actual fact, it's soccer.
Be an interesting way to heighten the stakes.

Töpher

Imagine the odds ya coulda got on that! :rolleyes:

Gordon

"Bye dear, I'm off to referee the local football teams, have a nice day"
"OK darling, don't forget your gun."

I hear that South Africa is a beautiful place and you just have to know where not to go - like Johannesburg so it seems. However, i don't thiink I'll ever go there, it just seems like you can die at any moment.

Kone

:eek:

Jaysus, you'd want to be careful who you called a w'nker over there!

The Song Thrush

Fookin 'ell..... that's mad.......