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Upset With Referee’s Call Field Hockey Fans in India Pelt Visiting Players With Bottles and . . . Slippers?

We know what big field hockey fans most BadJocks readers are (duh!) so it comes as no surprise to most of you how fired up fans get while watching guys in skirts run around a field slapping at a small ball (What, only the girls wear skirts in field hockey? Sorry about that).

Anyway, the fans at the hockey stadium in Morhabadi, India were not pleased with a call made by Raghu Prasad, the “internationally acclaimed hockey referee from Bangalore” (again, duh! everyone knows about Mr. Prasad) went against the home team. Oh no he didn’t!

Something about carrying the ball on the stick instead of slapping at it. As a result, a stroke–yes, a full stroke!–was awarded to the team from Maharashtra (I think their team nickname is the Maulers) which enraged the normally well-behaved fans from Jharkhand (nicknamed the Jugglers).

Well, before you know it, the fans were verbally abusing the referee with taunts about his choice of hair gels and facial moisturizers (although instant replay later showed the made the correct call) and then started pelting the Maharashtra players with bottles and . . . slippers. Yes, I said it: slippers. (Thank God we don’t have video of that carnage!) Can you imagine getting hit with something like that thrown from high up in the stadium? Especially if it’s one of those big bunny slippers with the ears. That could really, really sting.

Well, the slipper throwing got so out of hand the local officials called the game and it they will start up where they left off (minus any slippers) next week with the score still tied at an exciting 0-0. Likely it will be covered live by ESPN11.

Here’s more from the Hindustan Times:

A 12,000-strong crowd at the hockey stadium in Morhabadi forced the National Games organisers to reschedule Wednesday’s men’s semifinal match between Jharkhand and Maharashtra. Reason: Raghu Prasad, an internationally acclaimed hockey referee from Bangalore, awarded a penalty-stroke in favour of Mah

arashtra in the 20th minutes of the second half, thus irking the home team supporters. Prasad awarded the stroke after Jharkhand player Innocent Kullu ‘carried’ the ball inches away from the goalpost in the 55th minute. But the home team claimed that the ball had hit Kullu’s stick.

An enraged public started abusing the referee and threw bottles and slippers at the Maharashtra players, which forced the technical committee to stall the proceedings. Replays showed that Prasad had taken the right decision, but the crowd by then was in no mood to relent. At the time the incident occurred the teams were tied on 0-0.

Painful Sports Video: Rugby Referee Knocked Cold by Knee to Head

Sometimes the Painful Sports Videos are just painful to watch from an emotional “I bet that made them sad later” kind of way.

Others, like this one are in the “I’m glad I’m not THAT guy and have spent most of my life safely on the couch watching sports rather than playing them” way.

We understand the guy in the video was taken away on a stretcher and will make a full recovery, but might think twice about being a rugby referee again.

Rugby Ref Gets A Knee To The Head – Watch more Sports

Horse Riding Polo Referee Charges Angry Fans During Match in India

Now this is why you follow BadJocks, isn’t it? So you can tell your sports buddies about a bizarre incident that no one else has ever heard of.

First of all, how many of you knew that referees in polo matches rode horses? Of course, it makes sense NOW that you think about it, but I don’t recall ever giving it much thought. And the idea of an incident involving polo FANS is also news to us. Then again, in America we think of polo as only a sport of the very rich who might send a servant to complain about a call on the field or file a grievance with a US Senator at some point. But storm the field? Not likely. If there’s one thing we do know, where there are horses, there’s going to be horse poop.

Well, things are different in India (like you didn’t already know that) and this week a horse riding referee at the Rajasthan Polo Club got tired of the fans “hooting” at him (probably like booing, but sounds more like an owl) and decided to take take matters into his own hands by charging after them. The fans, of course, were unhappy with some of the referee’s calls and thought they should let him know. They apparently forgot that unlike a soccer or rugby referee, this guy is on top of a large horse and is carrying a long mallet, not a good combination unless you want to get beaten.

In the end no one was hurt, but we suspect enterprising polo fans will start bringing their own horses and mallets to the games, putting them on even footing with the referees. At least, that’s what I would do, although finding a seat for the horse might be difficult. I should shut up now and just let you watch the video below. (The video is complete with the standard interview with an old man & long time polo fan who claims in all his years he has never seen such a disgrace . . . and also talks about wearing an onion on his belt, which was the fashion at the time.)