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[Mike_H]

Referee punched: Turkish FA halts league football after club president hits Super Lig official

Referee Halil Umut Meler is knocked to the ground by a football club president following a Turkish Super Lig game, leading officials to suspend all matches.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Essexyellows]

Don`t think he`ll be Club President for much longer. Glad the ref is OK.

 

[Sarge]

Referee punched: Turkish FA halts league football after club president hits Super Lig official

Referee Halil Umut Meler is knocked to the ground by a football club president following a Turkish Super Lig game, leading officials to suspend all matches.

www.bbc.co.uk

Blimey!

 

[m]

PASHUN.

 

[Berliner]

PASHUN.

PASHAN surely? (niche Ottoman reference there)

 

[chuckbert]

PASHAN surely? (niche Ottoman reference there)

And not to be confused with PASHTUN.

 

[m]

Sometimes you just have to accept that others are more learned than you.

 

[Left Wing Cross]

Much as I would wish this to be an isolated case, I can foresee this kind of thing only happening more regularly.

 

[OX18]

Koca was astonishingly later quoted by the Demiroren News Agency to have said: "This incident developed due to the wrong decisions and provocative behaviour of the referee. My aim was to react verbally to the referee and spit in his face.

"At this time, I slapped the referee in the face. The slap I gave would not cause a fracture.

"After my slap, the referee threw himself on the ground. They immediately removed me from the scene because I have a heart condition."

INCREDIBLE

 

[holdsteady]

Koca was astonishingly later quoted by the Demiroren News Agency to have said: "This incident developed due to the wrong decisions and provocative behaviour of the referee. My aim was to react verbally to the referee and spit in his face.

"At this time, I slapped the referee in the face. The slap I gave would not cause a fracture.

"After my slap, the referee threw himself on the ground. They immediately removed me from the scene because I have a heart condition."

INCREDIBLE

Looking at the photo does the heart condition cause him to slap with a closed fist? That's an interesting side effect.

 

[Wallop]

‘Fifa president Gianni Infantino called the incident "totally unacceptable" and said that violence has "no place in our sport or society".’

um……FIFA Club World Cup currently being held in Saudi Arabia - human rights record ok there then?

 

[werthersoriginal]

Koca was astonishingly later quoted by the Demiroren News Agency to have said: "This incident developed due to the wrong decisions and provocative behaviour of the referee. My aim was to react verbally to the referee and spit in his face.

"At this time, I slapped the referee in the face. The slap I gave would not cause a fracture.

"After my slap, the referee threw himself on the ground. They immediately removed me from the scene because I have a heart condition."

INCREDIBLE

Worst defence EVAH

 

[OUFCGav]

Koca was astonishingly later quoted by the Demiroren News Agency to have said: "This incident developed due to the wrong decisions and provocative behaviour of the referee. My aim was to react verbally to the referee and spit in his face.

"At this time, I slapped the referee in the face. The slap I gave would not cause a fracture.

"After my slap, the referee threw himself on the ground. They immediately removed me from the scene because I have a heart condition."

INCREDIBLE

It sounds more plausible than the defences for not providing Whatsapp messages to the Covid enquiry.

 

[OUFCGav]

Football in that part of the Mediteranean is having issues - The Greek top league has been asked to play all games behind closed doors by the government due to crowd trouble.

Greece calls for 2-month spectator ban at soccer matches | eKathimerini.com

The Greek government has asked the Super League to hold championship matches without spectators for two months because of the risk of trouble.

www.ekathimerini.com

 

[Left Wing Cross]

Football in that part of the Mediteranean is having issues - The Greek top league has been asked to play all games behind closed doors by the government due to crowd trouble.

Greece calls for 2-month spectator ban at soccer matches | eKathimerini.com

The Greek government has asked the Super League to hold championship matches without spectators for two months because of the risk of trouble.

www.ekathimerini.com

There seems to be a rise in trouble across Europe, with recent examples in Netherlands and France:

Ajax forced to close part of stadium over crowd trouble

Ajax are fined and will have part of their ground closed for their Eredivisie match against Vitesse Arnhem after crowd trouble marred September's defeat to Feyenoord.

www.bbc.co.uk

French government condemns 'disgusting' Marseille fan violence

France's government condemned on Monday "disgusting" weekend violence around the Olympique de Marseille soccer stadium and said nine people had been arrested after visitors Olympique Lyonnais' bus was attacked and their Italian coach injured.

www.reuters.com

 

[Chris1963]

Football in that part of the Mediteranean is having issues - The Greek top league has been asked to play all games behind closed doors by the government due to crowd trouble.

Greece calls for 2-month spectator ban at soccer matches | eKathimerini.com

The Greek government has asked the Super League to hold championship matches without spectators for two months because of the risk of trouble.

www.ekathimerini.com

What the report doesn't say though (it only refers to "sports fans") is that the trouble was caused by fans at a basketball game! While it is true that the two basketball teams involved have the same names as, and are owned by, two major Greek football clubs, it does seem rather harsh to punish all football fans for it.

 

[Chris1963]

Referee punched: Turkish FA halts league football after club president hits Super Lig official

Referee Halil Umut Meler is knocked to the ground by a football club president following a Turkish Super Lig game, leading officials to suspend all matches.

www.bbc.co.uk

Again, suspending all the leagues in Turkey is a knee-jerk reaction. It should be just MKE Ankaragucu who deserve to be suspended.

It's difficult to see how violence against referees can be stopped unless you have high fences around the pitch, as was the case in the UK before Hillsborough.

 

[Chris1963]

Just seen on BBC website that Turkish football will resume on December 19th.

MKE Ankaragucu have been given a hefty fine and have to play their next five home games without spectators.

 

[Marked Ox]

Just seen on BBC website that Turkish football will resume on December 19th.

MKE Ankaragucu have been given a hefty fine and have to play their next five home games without spectators.

Should have docked them all points as well.

 

[SteMerritt]

Again, suspending all the leagues in Turkey is a knee-jerk reaction. It should be just MKE Ankaragucu who deserve to be suspended.

If this is an isolated incident, then yes completely agree, and completely agree the club should be punished massively for what happened. I don't follow Turkish football in any way, but if this was the latest in a long line of incidents involving multiple clubs then you could make an argument for a broader punishment. Thatcher was considering similar 'broad-stroke' measures in the 80s as many would remember, including getting all football supporters on a registration card scheme.

 

[Paul Cannell]

It's difficult to see how violence against referees can be stopped unless you have high fences around the pitch, as was the case in the UK before Hillsborough.

Just give the referees shooters and the same rights as 'israeli' settlers. That would work.

 

[OUFCGav]

The resumption of the league has gone well. The chairman of Instanbulspor entering the field of play to order his players off the pitch in protest at not getting a penalty. The match was abandoned.

 

[Grumpy Git]

The resumption of the league has gone well. The chairman of Instanbulspor entering the field of play to order his players off the pitch in protest at not getting a penalty. The match was abandoned.

What a knob. Give them the maximum points deduction, ban the President for life, and fine the club and President.

 

[holdsteady]

Again, suspending all the leagues in Turkey is a knee-jerk reaction. It should be just MKE Ankaragucu who deserve to be suspended.

It's difficult to see how violence against referees can be stopped unless you have high fences around the pitch, as was the case in the UK before Hillsborough.

Even if you have a high fence around a pitch I am not certain that would stop the owner of a club getting through, he can just tell one of his employees to open the gate to let him through.

 

[holdsteady]

Just give the referees shooters and the same rights as 'israeli' settlers. That would work.

Arming referees is long overdue, replace a yellow card with a knee capping, two yellows with a gut shot and a straight red with two in the head and I can see disciplinary problems disappearing over night.

 

[SteMerritt]

Arming referees is long overdue, replace a yellow card with a knee capping, two yellows with a gut shot and a straight red with two in the head and I can see disciplinary problems disappearing over night.

I think Gorrin would retire with immediate effect.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Arming referees is long overdue, replace a yellow card with a knee capping, two yellows with a gut shot and a straight red with two in the head and I can see disciplinary problems disappearing over night.

Wondering If you parenting skills are similar?

 

[Andy Stroud]

Perhaps they should revisit this suggestion from Romanian football a few years ago…

BBC SPORT | Funny Old Game | Crocked fans

 

[Essexyellows]

Ken Bates, electric fences................. those were the days.

 

[Andy Stroud]

Ken Bates, electric fences................. those were the days.

He really knew how to look after his customers