Crazy lower league experiences

stefan92

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Just talked about this stuff with a mate and wanted to share and ask about your crazy experiences on the small pitches around the world. What was the craziest experience you had?

Mine would be in the 8th or 9th (not sure what it was) tier in Germany - District League Leipzig. It actually happened to be in the small town of Deutzen which is where a small (a few thousand visitors) Goth Music festival happens - right next to the area of the football club. Usually they play in front of a few family and friends, but then a bunch of festival visitors (maybe 200) walked over to watch the match and of course were supporting the home team.

The view of all these Goths (in full festival clothing and many also makeup) supporting the home team definitely scared both the visiting team and the referee, it ended something like 9-1. And obviously for the home team it was kind of a "career highlight" to have so many fans at their place. Would have never expected that these two subcultures mix as well as they did there :lol:
 
Going to Athlone to watch Shels play in the First Division and seeing the referee jog backwards into one of our players, assume he was under attack after bumping into them, turn around and send the player off for violent conduct will haunt me forever. Refs at the top level may be bad but the floor plunges to depths you can never imagine.
 
Seen a player take a penalty against his own team.

He was playing for Team A, and they were 3-0 down to Team B. In 90th minute, ref awarded a penalty to Team B and as the penalty taker was about to take it, the lad ran up and smashed it top corner. Some penalty to be fair to him, anyway the ref sent him off.
 
Just the other week, I was watching Altrincham vs Gateshead on the last day of the National League season. Alty were 2-1 up in stoppage time, so Gateshead sent their keeper up for a corner. Alty got the ball and broke; ended in a foot race between our lad and their keeper. The keeper’s hamstring exploded somewhere around the halfway and he went down like he’d been shot. Ball tapped into an empty net, full time whistle blown. Helluva a last act of the season.
 
This is amateur footy, but I played in a game once when our left winger left the pitch shortly after half time to take a shit. He was playing that badly that nobody noticed he was missing.
When he reappeared the referee asked him what he was doing and he announced he’d had to have an emergency crap.
Ref booked him for leaving the pitch without permission, then 4 seconds later realised he’d already booked him in the first half and sent him off.
Joke material for years!
 
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