Bitten, pinched and defeated
Wednesday 29th September 2010, 2:30PM BST.
The turning point of the match as Guernsey keeper Tom Le Tissier is shown the red card for bringing down the Turkish player lying behind him. (Picture by Matt Bunn/Pinnacle, 1034113)
GUERNSEY’S European adventure ended in Croatia yesterday in one of the ugliest matches in local football history.
Tony Vance’s men lost 3-0 to Turkey in the final game of the Uefa Regions Cup after playing the second half with 10 men following the dismissal of goalkeeper Tom Le Tissier.
But it was Turkey’s off-the-ball antics that shamed the sport and led to them being branded ‘animals’ by Guernsey coach Tony Vance.
On two occasions, most notably in a scuffle near the corner flag, Ben Coulter was bitten by an opponent.
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Well done for getting there, but welcome to the real world!
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Peter
Don’t really understand your comment ‘ Welcome to the real world’? In a more high profile game (Euro Finals or World cup) players acting like that would have before booked and sent off. The officials for this game were by all accounts very poor. Even if the ref didn’t spot things going on the linesmen or 4th official should have brought it to the ref’s attention.
No player goes out on a football pitch expecting to get bitten, ‘Real World’ it ain’t!!
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Scuffers game with scuffers behaviour1
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Peter stupid comment
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hmmm. this has all been about our brave lads who tolerated the terrible turkish torture of bum-biting!! heroes indeed (albeit rather embarrassed heroes given such touch line, public intimacy). god help them if they waved the kurdish flag and the turkish army team got hold of them. but actually, although they should be praised for not retaliating as their opponents hoped, the press report suggests clearly that their defeat was as much down to a rather poor performance rather than the other lot not playing fair? umpteen chances missed in the first half, goalie gets himself sent off etc, etc. i do rather think objectivity is a bit missing here, especially with much of the guernsey team closely involved with the local paper?
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