Crazy scene in Northern Ireland: After conceding a goal, a goalkeeper was thrown off the pitch after attacking his own teammate.
A crazy scene played out in the Northern Irish first division: After conceding a goal, Glentoran’s goalkeeper Aaron McCarey was thrown off the pitch after attacking a team-mate.
In the game against Coleraine, Glentoran conceded the 2-2 equalizer in the 80th minute after a nice solo. Previously, Bobby Burns had lost the ball in forward motion.
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It was this circumstance that annoyed Keeper McCarey. After Cathair Friel had inserted to 2-2, McCarey jumped up and stormed towards Burns, grabbed him by the neck and pushed him to the ground.
Then he tried to straighten his teammate again, but this rolled over in pain. McCarey then saw the red card. Glentoran coach Mick McDermott didn’t want to attach too much importance to the crazy scene after the game. “Aaron gets it, Bobby gets it, everyone gets it,” he said.
Something similar happened in the Bundesliga at BVB 18 years ago. At that time, goalkeeper Jens Lehmann, who had already been warned, saw the yellow-red card in the Revierderby after he stormed his team-mate Marcio Amoros after an offside goal by FC Schalke 04 and attacked them hard.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s your own or an opposing player,” said the referee at the time, Herbert Fandel, explaining the curious reprimand against Lehmann. The same applies to the assessment of the scene in Northern Ireland.
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