Grenade thrown on pitch

Clanket

I've looked and can't see this posted already. Apologies if it is.

Player very lucky not to lose a hand

Match per YouTube was the AFC Champions League game between Iranian side Sepahan and Saudi Arabia's Al-Ahli

The_Kew_Tour

Wow:eek:

What game was it? or League?

Giggsy11

Dont think it was Grenade. If it was refs and players would have been injured?

GavRedKing

Dont think its a grenade, smoke bomb maybe?

Still though, hes very lucky he didnt get seriously hurt.

Nailz

No. 40 was quite lucky there, he took a while to chuck whatever it was away, if he had to have been a second longer we would be saying goodbye to his arm.

Rekop dog

As soon as I heard Iranian football, I thought Eamon Zayed, forgot about him but apparentely he's called mr hattrick over there now after 3 hattricks in a few games last season.

Bombs are bad also btw.

Oat23

It's definitely a smoke bomb, but either way I wouldn't want to be holding it when it goes off!

Number 4 for Sepahan doesn't even flinch. Boss.

Caveman1

Does a smoke bomb usually explode in flames?

Caveman1

Caveman1 wrote: »

Does a smoke bomb usually explode in flames?

Smoke tends to follow flames, there's a phrase to do with the phenomenon.

Fromthetrees

Here, they take the top off bottles of coke.
There, they allow you bring explodey things into the ground.
On the balance of things I pick having flat coke.

nickcave

Candidate for the whitest thread alive methinks :pac:. Definitely NOT a smoke bomb. It was a grenade, or a small IED. Could have killed someone...

Washington Irving

That's definitely not a grenade. Yer man is still lucky it didn't go off in his hand though or he would have been a shoe in for a Darwin Award

Augmerson

Fromthetrees wrote: »

Here, they take the top off bottles of coke.
There, they allow you bring explodey things into the ground.
On the balance of things I pick having flat coke.

I doubt very much its allowed but look at the size of the thing, easy to conceal. Security might not be as good over there. They don't have the same money pumped into the leagues as in the UK and Europe so may not have enough security personnel or CCTV.

Ugh. Flat Coke

Caveman1

Deleted User wrote: »

Smoke tends to follow flames, there's a phrase to do with the phenomenon.

IMO that is more than a smoke bomb, its some sort of explosive just not as powerful as a grenade.

tayto lover

It looks like a child's bottle.
Obviously a fair number of softies playing over there too.

SEPT 23 1989

There would be a crater in the ground and the players would be all laid out if it was a grenade

Hazys

Is it just me or does the slowed down explosion of flames look fake?


I think it could just have been a 'normal' smoke bomb that exploded but the flames were added for addtional effect.

Also, it looks like the flames come (coming up from the ground) before the grenade hits the ground.



This is coming from my years of experience in bomb squads.

uberwolf

Could those expressing an opinion on the nature of the device just confirm whether their armaments experience extends beyond call of duty.

nickcave

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

There would be a crater in the ground and the players would be all laid out if it was a grenade

If it were Hollywood, maybe.

uberwolf wrote: »

Could those expressing an opinion on the nature of the device just confirm whether their armaments experience extends beyond call of duty.

Agreed. While I'm hardly an arms expert myself (never even played CoD ), here's an M67 - a frag grenade - exploding. That's a military grenade. And that's what it looks like blowing up.

My guess is it was some homemade explosive (ie a grenade) that some idiot fan brought along to make a big bang with. And it could easily have killed somebody. Anyone who says this was a smoke 'bomb' which aren't designed to explode in that way, and release a hell of a lot more smoke, is way wrong.

Anyway, why am I here?

Oat23

uberwolf wrote: »

Could those expressing an opinion on the nature of the device just confirm whether their armaments experience extends beyond call of duty.

Battlefield vet :cool:

bullvine

Its what you call a practice grenade. I asked my cousin hes just retired from the US EOD in the Army.

Jelle1880

Hazys wrote: »

Is it just me or does the slowed down explosion of flames look fake?


I think it could just have been a 'normal' smoke bomb that exploded but the flames were added for addtional effect.

Also, it looks like the flames come (coming up from the ground) before the grenade hits the ground.



This is coming from my years of experience in bomb squads.

It does look edited.

This is the actual footage:

Looks to me like it's a home made smoke bomb or firecracker, you see these explode all the time in South America, Italy, Greece,...