Swiss referee gives Young Boys the finger during cup match
Ref flips the bird at lairy fans
Referee Massimo Busacca, the man tasked with overseeing Man United’s schooling at the hands of Barcelona in last year’s Champions League final, was embroiled in sweary scandal this weekend after pointing with the wrong finger during a Swiss Cup game between third division minnows FC Baden and Swiss Super League runners-up, Young Boys (who infamously play at the lap dance-hosting Wankdorf.)
Home team Baden took a shock lead after nine minutes, which set off a mini pitch invasion and prompted Busacca, whose history of refereeing incidents on Wikipedia reads like an instruction manual on ‘how to lose friends and enrage people’, to order a loudspeaker announcement for fans to stop scaling the fences.
Inexplicably, the travelling Young Boys support took offence to someone trying to look out for their safety and struck up an ‘abusive chant’ – leading the ref to flash a middle-finger salute. Busacca later apologised in a statement posted on the Swiss FA website:
“I let myself get provoked by the verbal insults of the fans and was dragged down to making an unsporting gesture.
“It should not have happened. My reaction should have been without error.
Perhaps he should’ve done the fan-aggravating Emmanuel Adebayor Patented Celebration Slide instead.
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2 responses so far
Abbie // September 21, 2009 at 3:37 pm
unsporting gesture haha! I always wondered if the finger was used outside of Australia. I guess its an international gesture.
randomsausage // September 21, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I’ve always wanted a match to be played between Newell’s Old Boys of Argentina and Young Boys of Bern — possible sponsored by NAMBLA
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