Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:40PM During a recent Belgium league game an assistant was injured when he was hit on the head by something thrown by a fan.
It appears though to be a piece of cardboard!
Friday, February 3, 2012 at 1:48PM A collection of news links that explain themselves!
Steve Mclaren is on the look out for a ghost!
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 12:33PM Just seen this on the Guardian and its amazing. Its a time lapse video of Barca vs Osasuna. I suggest you open it to full screen to get the full benefit.
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 12:28PM You cant help but to have heard of the shocking news from Egypt, where 73 people have been killed with a further 1000 injured. This happened after Al Ahly vs Al Masry and after the Arab spring has grabbed the worlds attention.
Games in Egypt can be so voliatile that they quite often bring in European referee's. Former Scotish Referee Stuart Dougal has talked to the BBC about his experinces. Link to Video
Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 9:57PM Over the weekend there has been the shocking news coming from Germany of the attempted suicide by Babak Rafati the Bundesliga Referee. Details are not clear, however his assistatns were concerend that he was 15 minutes late for their pre match meeting at the hotel. When they entered his room following asstiance from hotel staff he was found in the bath having cut his wrists. The match he was due to take charge of Cologne and Mainz, was abdonded and rightly so.
While this is worrying news on its own. I wonder what the issue with German football is. Over recent years there has been the suicide of Robert Enke, the German national team keeper. THere has also been Breno the Bayern Munich defender who set fire to his own home. Also Ralf Rangnick resigned as manager of Schalke due to burn out earlier this season.
Hopefully Babak can put behind him whatever his troubles are and recover his full health, however if he will return to the Bundesliga and FIFA it remains to be seen, but I expect that is the least of his worrys.