A bad day to be a referee!
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 8:59 pm
Cuban athlete Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:07 pm
Um, I think Angel has pretty well blown his chances for winning the De Coubertain Award for sportsmanship.
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:08 pm
Both he and his coach have been banned for life from the sport.
Re: A bad day to be a referee!
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:11 pm
Probably his best hit of the day.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Cuban athlete Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match.
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:45 pm
I am lucky this didn't happen to me on February 5, 2006.
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:57 am
NFL_Referee wrote:I am lucky this didn't happen to me on February 5, 2006.
Spoiler
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:33 am
Re: A bad day to be a referee!
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:13 pm
Angel sure wasn't any angel.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Cuban athlete Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match.
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:31 pm
The NBA and MLB could learn a lesson from this.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Both he and his coach have been banned for life from the sport.
I don't see why the coach is being punished, though.
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:26 pm
For condoning the act after the fact. --BobThousandaire wrote:The NBA and MLB could learn a lesson from this.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Both he and his coach have been banned for life from the sport.
I don't see why the coach is being punished, though.
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:04 pm
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:24 pm
So if the government of a country condones the act after the fact, should the country be banned?macrae1234 wrote:Castro defends cuban's actions
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 626D08.DTL