CCFC Germany
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There was a quite stunning scene in German second division (2. Bundesliga) yesterday -
To put it into place a short overview on the table situation :
Fuerth + Enitracht Frankfurt almost certainly promoted on first + second place, third place would be promotion playoffs and there are just two serious contenders left for that place of the table, FC St. Pauli and my German team, Fortuna Duesseldorf.
Fortuna being on third , one point better than fourth place St. Pauli.
St. Pauli played Union Berlin away yesterday.
It was 1-1 all square in the 81st minute. Fortuna lead FSV Frankfurt 1-0 at home that time when St. Pauli Striker Marius Ebbers scored the potential 2-1 game winner in an important match in the battle for promotion.
But it was a "strange" goal, ref had a bad view on the situation and the linesman did not claim anything as well.
So the ref goes up to the goalscorer and asked him if he played handball and he frankly said "yes I did".
Which is quite stunning as he'd probably come through with it.
Unfortunately for Fortuna Duesseldorf, St. Pauli scored the game winner in extra time, anyway.
Might be a boring story for some of you, but I think it's a story worth telling as such scenes of fairplay are rarely seen in modern pro football, at least over here...
To put it into place a short overview on the table situation :
Fuerth + Enitracht Frankfurt almost certainly promoted on first + second place, third place would be promotion playoffs and there are just two serious contenders left for that place of the table, FC St. Pauli and my German team, Fortuna Duesseldorf.
Fortuna being on third , one point better than fourth place St. Pauli.
St. Pauli played Union Berlin away yesterday.
It was 1-1 all square in the 81st minute. Fortuna lead FSV Frankfurt 1-0 at home that time when St. Pauli Striker Marius Ebbers scored the potential 2-1 game winner in an important match in the battle for promotion.
But it was a "strange" goal, ref had a bad view on the situation and the linesman did not claim anything as well.
So the ref goes up to the goalscorer and asked him if he played handball and he frankly said "yes I did".
Which is quite stunning as he'd probably come through with it.
Unfortunately for Fortuna Duesseldorf, St. Pauli scored the game winner in extra time, anyway.
Might be a boring story for some of you, but I think it's a story worth telling as such scenes of fairplay are rarely seen in modern pro football, at least over here...