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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Shot by referee kills soccer coach |
| 2004-07-26 |
Monday, July 26, 2004 Posted: 9:37 AM EDT (1337 GMT) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- A South African soccer referee pulled a gun and shot dead a coach who questioned one of his rulings, police said. Inspector Mali Govender of the Grahamstown police in the Eastern Cape province said a fight broke out after the referee gave a yellow warning card to a player in a local match on Saturday. "My rulings are [BANG!] final." "There was an altercation... and the referee became threatened when the other team approached him because they were angry," Govender said. "So he pulled out a gun and killed the coach of the visiting team." Govender said the coach died on the pitch while the referee fled the scene. Sound military scragedy, decap the opposition's leadership and make off in the ensuing confusion. Police were confident of making an arrest soon, she added. South Africa has one of the world's highest murder rates with an alarming 47.4 murders per 100,000 people, or eight times the figure for the United States. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #3 These sudden death overtimes are always the most exciting. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-07-26 10:06:45 PM |
| #2 Guess he decided to switch to a red card, after all. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-26 9:37:24 PM |
| #1 By God now's that umpiring! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-26 9:22:27 PM |