This is horse crap. You're a goalie. USE YOUR HANDS NEXT TIME!

Soooooo, does everybody that paid get a raincheck, or what?

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vinnydoz007: whats the rules on this? They dont penalize the home team or something? I mean, theres got to be a way to control these soccer hooligans. It cant be that hard.

There can be fairly harsh penalties for that sort of thing; they usually get handed down by the league after they've been presented with all of the reports and evidence. They might resume as-is, they might replay the match (possibly in an empty stadium), they might punish the hosts with having to play a game in an empty stadium, points in the standings, awarding a forfeit... and all of those on top of the fine that's sure to come.

The big question is whether the referee's decision will be overturned, because even in the face of crystal-clear HD evidence leagues absolutely hate overturning a decision. But it's the Eredivisie, so who knows.

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I've never liked a Manchester United player more than when I saw Eric Cantona's boot fly into the chest of that farking chav.

I found it funny, during the 2006 World Cup, that he was doing "Joga Bonito" ads encouraging fair play and respect...You could tell who knew Eric when they would see those ads and laugh.

Don't know if it was international or not, but in the US it was funny.

I like how the pitch invader went from "Tough guy who was going to give the goalkeeper what for" to "Please don't kick my ass Costa Rican dude" in a second or two...

When reality meets beer balls.

Should've given the keep a medal instead of a red card.

dokool: There can be fairly harsh penalties for that sort of thing; they usually get handed down by the league after they've been presented with all of the reports and evidence. They might resume as-is, they might replay the match (possibly in an empty stadium), they might punish the hosts with having to play a game in an empty stadium, points in the standings, awarding a forfeit... and all of those on top of the fine that's sure to come.

AZ is going to get punished for refusing to go on. I know most (sane) people see the withdrawal as a logical response, but both teams have an obligation to play. That, and I'm guessing Ajax holds more clout in the KNVB.

Keeper's red card has since been rescinded.

"The 19-year-old youth who tried to attack the keeper of Alkmaar football club AZ during Wednesday night's Dutch Cup tie had been banned from the Arena stadium for earlier incidents.... the youth appeared to have been given his ticket by someone with a season ticket. 'We cannot check if someone illegally passes the ticket on to someone who has been banned from the stadium'...The youth, named Wesley, comes from Almere and has a large tattoo of the letters ACAB on his back, the Telegraaf said"

SuburbanCowboy: On my shortlist of people I don't want to be kicked by, soccer goalie is one of them

I have a very short list of people I don't want to be kicked by.
1. Sebastian Janikowski
2. Tim Howard
3. Anyone else

Splinshints: I love all the people expressing outrage that a supposed "professional" sports player got a red card for repeatedly kicking a drunk in the crotch after he successfully defended himself and knocked the idiot to the ground.

The whole incident, including both the thug who ran onto the field and the thug he ran at, plus the thugs in this thread and around the world whining because thuggish behavior in general wasn't being tolerated by the ref, really explains a lot about soccer thugsfans in general....

/ soccer fans: because somebody has to be stupider than even the dumbest Eagles fan, I suppose

When someone is attacked they have an instinctual response to defend themselves. And defending yourself means ensuring that the person attacking you is rendered unable to do you further harm. The goalie did absolutely nothing wrong. People who don't believe a human being has the right to defend themselves are farking morons.

Splinshints: justGreg: People who don't believe a human being has the right to defend themselves are farking morons.

He defended himself just fine. He knocked the guy down with the first kick. Then he decided he had the opportunity to be a hooligan too and he got nailed for it.

The original thug, the goalie deciding he'd try his hand at thuggery and all the soccer thugs defending him just go to show what a brutish and ugly "sport" the game is and what brutish and ugly people its fans are. And soccer fans wonder why they get looks like they're a bunch of fugging cavemen. Because they are.

He probably just lacked your lightening-quick ability to assess with a high degree of certainty that there was no chance that the guy would get back up and continue the assault.

Your whole anti-soccer thing is pure nonsense anyway. European soccer players get multi-game suspensions for talking unpleasantly to one another while American footballers stomp on each other with cleats and hockey fans actually expect fisticuffs for their price of admission.

Splinshints: The original thug, the goalie deciding he'd try his hand at thuggery and all the soccer thugs defending him just go to show what a brutish and ugly "sport" the game is and what brutish and ugly people its fans are. And soccer fans wonder why they get looks like they're a bunch of fugging cavemen. Because they are.

This just in, sportsfans don't like opposing fans or players. More at 10.

Or I could just say you're trolling and be done with it.

Doth not interfere in the ways of soccer players,
for they shall kick thine ass.

MugzyBrown: Anyone who kicks somebody on the ground is a scumbag unless it's a real threatening situation.

This was not that.

Yes, because we now know that this was random stupidity from a mostly harmless drunk, we can conclude that by defending himself prior to that knowledge the goalie was way out of line. Had it been someone meaning him actual harm, or someone on meth instead of alcohol, or a racist attack he might have been justified to defend himself, but it wasn't and he should have had perfect foreknowledge of the facts and acted accordingly. His lack of prescience entitles us to sit in front of our computers and call him a thug.