What would you do?

[jabarinho]

Player red-carded after winning penalty
Reuters - Friday 04 May 2012, 14:32

A player in the Norwegian fifth division has been sent off for protesting against being awarded a penalty.

Talat Abunima was playing for Sandved against Ild when he went down in the box.

"I went past an Ild player and then tripped over my own feet. It was unbelievably clumsy of me and when the referee pointed to the spot I felt I had to speak out," Abunima told local newspaper Sandnesposten.

Referee Nedzad Munjic disagreed, telling news website VG Nett: "It was a clear penalty. The player got it all wrong - I don't think the players know the rules properly. And when I've blown the whistle, I can't change my mind."

Munjic first gave Abunima a yellow card for protesting and when the 36-year-old continued to argue against the decision to award him a spot-kick, he was sent off.

Rune Pedersen, the head of the Norwegian Referees' Association, said the official could have changed his mind over the penalty but that the cards were warranted.

"A referee can change any decision he has taken until the play resumes," he said.

With Sandved leading 3-1, player-coach Oyvind Svenning took the spot-kick, deliberately sending it wide.

"It was the right thing to do," he told reporters.

But the drama did not end there. Ild withdrew a player to make the sides even again and were then awarded two late penalties by Munjic. They converted both to secure a 3-3 draw.

"The guy who missed on purpose complained a lot about the penalty that led to the 3-3 goal," the referee added.

"I don't really understand that. First he shoots wide on purpose, then he complains when the other team scores. It's hopeless."

Sandnesposten said the local football authority has now rescinded Abunima's red card.

fair play to him, but if it was World Cup final would he do the same thing. What would you do?

[Adi]

Good read right there.  Is there a video of this?

It's hard to show that much sportsmanship especially in situations like a World Cup.  You'd do anything to win.

A few people stick to their values and those people are special.

Here are some good examples of good and bad behaviour in big competitions:

A SPORTSMANSHIP TIMELINE: THE GOOD, THE BAD (AND THE NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL)

1925 / THOUGHTFUL, TO A TEE During a match at the United States Open, Bobby Jones hits a wayward shot, and his ball lands in the rough just beyond the fairway. As he prepares to hit his next shot, his club causes a slight movement of the ball. Nobody else witnesses it, but Jones immediately calls a two-stroke penalty against himself. He goes on to lose the tournament—by one stroke. Says Jones, after being lauded for the gesture, “You might as well praise me for not breaking into banks.”


 

1932 / TOUCHED BY GREATNESS At the Los Angeles Summer Olympics, 21-year-old Judy Guinness stands to become the first-ever British fencer to win an Olympic gold medal. After a closely contested final match against Austrian Ellen Preis, Guinness is declared the winner. But she points out that the judges twice failed to record touches by her opponent. Her honesty costs her the gold but wins her fans throughout the world.


 

1936 / THE BOOT FOR ITALY During a men’s soccer match between Italy and the U.S., at the Summer Olympics in Berlin, a German referee frequently warns the Italians for their roughness, which results in two American injuries—one after a swift kick to the stomach. In the second half, the referee tosses Italy’s Achille Piccini out of the game. Piccini refuses to leave the field, as several Italian players surround the ref, pin his arms to his sides, and cover his mouth with their hands. The game continues with Piccini still in the lineup, and Italy wins 1-0.

 

1936 / A TEST OF THEIR MEDAL Two Japanese teammates, Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe, tie for second place in the pole vault at the Berlin Olympic Games. Reports vary on what happened next: One account has Nishida and Oe competing in a sudden death vault-off to determine second and third place winners. What is known for sure is, when they return home to Japan, they have a jeweler slice their medals in half lengthwise and then fuse them back together, with each man owning a medal that is half silver and half bronze.

 

1940 / CLASSY ACTION Cornell University’s top-ranked football team, victors in 19 straight games, defeats Dartmouth College 7-3 on a last-second touchdown. The winning streak is saved. Or is it? Upon returning to Ithaca and developing game film, Big Red coaches discover that the touchdown occurred when the team was mistakenly awarded a fifth down. Cornell promptly sends a telegram, offering to forfeit the game. Final score: Dartmouth 3, Cornell 0. It is the only time a football game has ever been decided off the field.


 

1948 / NET LOSS At the Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, the Uruguayan men’s basketball team takes top honors—in unsportsmanlike incidents. First, a referee’s call costs them a game against France. They respond by attacking the ref, kicking him in the groin. He is carried from the court. Next, the Uruguayans play so aggressively against the Soviet Union that three Russians have to receive first aid. Uruguay caps its Olympic appearance with a 25-person brawl against Argentina.

 

1956 / STRIDE RIGHT At the Australian Championships, distance runner John Landy is attempting to set a new world record in the mile when another runner, Ron Clarke, trips and falls onto the track. Landy leaps over him, accidentally scraping Clarke’s arm with his spikes. Landy has a choice: go for the world record or stop to check on an injured competitor. He chooses the latter. By the time he starts running again, he is 60 yards behind the rest of the field. He still wins the race, but falls a few seconds short of history.

 

1980 / NOT REALLY ROSIE She raises her arms in triumph after winning the Boston Marathon in record time—but Rosie Ruiz isn’t sweating, she doesn’t seem tired, and no one can recall seeing her run. In fact, two students claim to have seen her burst out of a crowd of spectators a half-mile from the finish line. Ruiz, who pulled the same stunt at the New York City Marathon the previous year, is disqualified. Two years later, she will be arrested for embezzling from a real estate company.

 

1982 / GALLOPING GRACE British jockey Peter Scudamore is leading the points race in the National Hunt jockeys’ championship when he suffers a season-ending injury. His closest rival, John Francome, has won three straight titles. When he ties Scudamore’s point total, he seems poised to win a fourth in a row. Instead, he stops racing for the remainder of the season, saying his decision is based on respect for his opponent, whom he believes deserves something to show for a fine season.

 

1990 / UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS Echoing the incident between Cornell and Dartmouth a half-century earlier, the University of Colorado football team beats Missouri 33-31 after mistakenly being awarded a fifth down on the game’s final play. Colorado coach Bill McCartney, a former Missouri Tigers player whose Buffaloes will go on to win the national championship, is asked afterward if he will forfeit the game. McCartney decides against it, complaining that Missouri administrators purposely allowed a sloppy, slippery playing field.

 

1990 / SEAWORTHY On Christmas, 50 days into a ’round-the-world yacht race, English sailor Pete Goss receives a mayday notification. A storm in the Southern Ocean has capsized one of his competitors, Frenchman Raphael Dinelli. Goss abandons his course and spends two days sailing his yacht into hurricane-force winds to rescue Dinelli. Goss’s yacht is knocked over several times en route, but he eventually finds the French sailor in a life raft. Although he doesn’t win the race, France awards Goss the Legion d’Honneur.

 

2005 / ADVANTAGE, RODDICK In the quarterfinals of the Rome Masters tennis tournament, top-ranked Andy Roddick has match point against his opponent, Fernando Verdasco, whose second serve is called out. Double fault. Match to Roddick. But Roddick insists the ball nicked the line, and the stunned umpire changes his call, giving Verdasco an ace. Verdasco winds up winning the set and, eventually, the whole match. Afterward, sportswriter Frank Deford declares, “If there’s still a small place in heaven for athletes, Andy Roddick just got his wings.”

 

2008 / LOW BLOW During a men’s taekwondo match at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Cuban fighter Angel Matos loses the bronze medal after he is disqualified by a Swedish referee for taking too much injury time. Matos responds by pushing the referee and high-kicking him in the face. After spitting on the mat, he is dragged from the scene and forever banned from World Taekwondo Federation championships.

 

2009 / PENALTY KICKS During a women’s soccer game between Brigham Young and the University of New Mexico, UNM defender Elizabeth Lambert plays aggressive throughout. But she clearly becomes unsportsmanlike when she grabs an opponent’s long ponytail and yanks her violently to the ground. ESPN analyst Julie Foudy notes that play can be fierce at times, but adds, “Oh my goodness … that is going over the line.”

 

2011 / GLOBAL UNREST During the second game of an event billed as a “China-U.S. Basketball Friendship Match,” in Beijing, members of the Georgetown University team and the Bayi Military Rockets engage in a bench-clearing brawl. Six separate altercations break out. Players stomp on each other and throw chairs. Spectators hurl garbage and water bottles. The game is canceled with more than nine minutes remaining and the score tied.

 

2011 / SAFETY FIRST At the Head of the Schuylkill competition in Philadelphia, James Konopka and Nick Mead, of Episcopal Academy, are expected to challenge for the Under-17 Doubles title. But a competitor’s boat capsizes, and the two boys stop to rescue them, only resuming the race when a launch arrives. They finish at the back of the pack. “We are all training to win races against each other,” says their coach, Rob Maier, “but the culture on the river is much more cooperative than combative. It looks like that rubbed off on our rowers.”

 

2011 / THE GOAL? INTEGRITY Dennis Wideman apparently becomes the first Washington Capitals defenseman to record a hat trick (three goals) in nearly a dozen years, his first such feat in 481 career National Hockey League games. Then he tells everyone it shouldn’t count. A teammate actually deflected the last one, he insists, and should get credit for the goal. The NHL changes the scoring. Wideman is instead credited with an assist—statistically and symbolically.

[jabarinho]

the Rosie Ruiz one in 1980 is just crazy omg hahaha. And the italy vs us match in 1936 is madness. The Pete Goss 1990 story was the best though. That is incredible bravery and determination! Very inspiring.

I think cricket has the most fair-playing players though. Very often a batsman would call himself 'out', even if the umpire did not see it. Including the legendary Brian Lara from my country Trinidad and Tobago

[Adi]

I know some incredible stuff right?!

I wish more people looked at this forum.  We have some good topics here.

[vittoleon]

Referee is clearly too stupid to admit his mistake. Player is too stupid to just intentionally miss the penalty and takes a red card instead.

[jabarinho]

Referee is clearly too stupid to admit his mistake. Player is too stupid to just intentionally miss the penalty and takes a red card instead.