Soccer Player Farts and Gets A Red Card

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/blogs/soccer-fc-yahoo/swedish-soccer-player-gets-red-card-for-farting-202705537.html

Technically, he got a yellow card for the "offense", but because he already got carded previously, this one became a red card. Seems rather ridiculous, and quite hilarious to an extent, but it's the sheer oddity of it all that makes it that funny.

For discussion purposes, what odd thing have you witnessed, or heard of, in a sports game that made you laugh or thought was funny in some way?

(Also, inb4 Geroge Carlin's "farts are worse than fucking" clip)

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I love this penalty. Anybody else watching Copa America?

 

[Groxnax]

Wait, what?

Now that's just weird man.

 

[Zhukov]

I love this penalty. Anybody else watching Copa America?

Okay, I don't play soccer, I don't speak Spanish and I'm confused. (In fact I don't speak Spanish so much that I'm not even certain that was Spanish. Portuguese? Whatever. The language in that there video.)

Did the guy taking the penalty shot think it was a bad call and intentionally do a soft kick?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I love this penalty. Anybody else watching Copa America?

Okay, I don't play soccer, I don't speak Spanish and I'm confused. (In fact I don't speak Spanish so much that I'm not even certain that was Spanish. Portuguese? Whatever. The language in that there video.)

Did the guy taking the penalty shot think it was a bad call and intentionally do a soft kick?

It is Spanish / Kicker honestly fucked up, thought he was baiting the keeper into jumping sideways.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Well, that stinks.

As for weird things I've seen in sports, not much of a sports guy, but I do try to watch the Super Bowl each year. And man, am I glad I did. I would never have believed that a Super Bowl team would be foolish enough to throw a pass at the 1 yard line with 20 seconds left on the clock, when the play made the difference between winning and losing. Especially when they had one of the best, if not THE best, runners in the league with Marshawn Lynch, and just needed to make it 1 yard further to WIN THE SUPER BOWL.

Yeah, I still don't know the logic of that call.

 

[Guffe]

Wait, what?

Now that's just weird man.

He got the yellow card becaus the ref saw it as "offensive taunting and unsportsman behaviour". I haven't seen the situation myself, but based on that statement, the player has most likely had physical encounters with someone during the game and then done something (farted) to try and make the other player angry. Basically the ref saw it as the same as if the player would've called the other one something bad/taunting.

I still see it as a very very very weird decision.

 

[FalloutJack]

That's funny. I would've thought he'd get a brown card for that one.

 

[K12]

Footballers are total pricks when it comes to diving or faking injuries or trying to bait referees into carding other players or award penalties or whatever so fuck the lot of them basically. It's like the violently orgasm sounds that female tennis players all make now, it makes the sport unwatchable for me.

 

[KissingSunlight]

When I read this headline, I thought that the OP was grossly exaggerating. Nope. That literally happened. I have a hyperbole I like to say about ticky-tack fouls called in basketball. "He sneezed on the player."

This is why Americans can't take soccer seriously.

 

[Aerosteam]

Well, this is close...


I'm always going to find farts funny.

 

[MysticSlayer]

It is Spanish / Kicker honestly fucked up, thought he was baiting the keeper into jumping sideways.

If I remember correctly, the day before another player took a penalty shot down the middle, and the keeper blocked it with his foot because the ball got there before the keeper was out of the way. Something tells me the Venezuelan player was trying to avoid having the same thing happen to him. And it almost worked, but the keeper hesitated before jumping to the other side.

It's also possible he got so afraid of kicking so hard he lost accuracy that he just failed to kick it hard enough.

 

[Jux]

Ljungkvist, baffled, needed closure. "I asked the referee, 'What, am I not allowed to break wind a little?' " Ljungkvist continued, sensing that the world and the history books would need more information. " 'No,' he replied. ... I don't get it but maybe he thought I farted in my hand and threw the fart at him. But I did not."

Favorite quote. Is throwing farts something people actually do? I don't remember that ever being a thing.

 

[Disco Biscuit]

When they used to hang rustlers in the old days, the last thing they would do is piss their pants. That was the ultimate sign, you see, that they had lost control over their own bodies, that they were about to die. See, it's the first function of any organization to control its own sphincters. We're not even doing that. So we're working on refining our management techniques so that we can control information no matter where it is--on our hard disks or even inside the programmers' heads.

I guess that crazy monopolist had a point.

 

[Aerosteam]

Ljungkvist, baffled, needed closure. "I asked the referee, 'What, am I not allowed to break wind a little?' " Ljungkvist continued, sensing that the world and the history books would need more information. " 'No,' he replied. ... I don't get it but maybe he thought I farted in my hand and threw the fart at him. But I did not."

Favorite quote. Is throwing farts something people actually do? I don't remember that ever being a thing.

Yes, that's actually a thing. I've had... first hand experience.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Eh, did the other team all fall over and pretend to be hurt though? I could see that happening.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Eh, did the other team all fall over and pretend to be hurt though? I could see that happening.

Maybe pretending to be dying of asphyxiation, but other than that...doubtful they could pretend anything else. Unless someone can vomit on command.

 

[LetalisK]

Well, that stinks.

As for weird things I've seen in sports, not much of a sports guy, but I do try to watch the Super Bowl each year. And man, am I glad I did. I would never have believed that a Super Bowl team would be foolish enough to throw a pass at the 1 yard line with 20 seconds left on the clock, when the play made the difference between winning and losing. Especially when they had one of the best, if not THE best, runners in the league with Marshawn Lynch, and just needed to make it 1 yard further to WIN THE SUPER BOWL.

Yeah, I still don't know the logic of that call.

>:O

You mean the running back that had been shitting the bed on the goal line all season? Seahawks had enough time to do one pass play and two run plays or just two run plays. Just the economics of the situation would demand the first option. As seemingly the only die hard Seahawks fan willing to defend that play, I'll write out a thesis on it, but I'll summarize thusly: Carroll(Seahawks coach) was smart, Bellichick(patriots coach) was brilliant, and Butler(the player that made the interception) rose to the occasion and made a play on the ball against a play he had specifically practiced against all week.

No, I blame Bennett for fucking up. >.>

 

[LetalisK]

Ljungkvist, baffled, needed closure. "I asked the referee, 'What, am I not allowed to break wind a little?' " Ljungkvist continued, sensing that the world and the history books would need more information. " 'No,' he replied. ... I don't get it but maybe he thought I farted in my hand and threw the fart at him. But I did not."

Favorite quote. Is throwing farts something people actually do? I don't remember that ever being a thing.

At least around where I live they call it butter cupping. It can either be a throw or a full on cupped hand to the face.

 

[MysticSlayer]

Eh, did the other team all fall over and pretend to be hurt though? I could see that happening.

Maybe pretending to be dying of asphyxiation, but other than that...doubtful they could pretend anything else. Unless someone can vomit on command.

You don't have to fake a related injury in soccer. I've seen plenty of cases where someone get's hit in the leg or chest and act like their face is broken. It's all an act, and once you start acting, you can pretend it is anything. You just have to hope that the ref believes you.