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This was on the BBC rolling news site
Ref locked in dressing room overnight
Football
Posted at 11:22
Trabzonspor president Ibrahim Ethem Haciosmanoglu and several members of his board have been given lengthy bans after a referee was locked in his dressing room at their stadium.
Haciosmanoglu was angered by match official Cagatay Sahan's decision not to award his team a penalty in a recent game and ordered Sahan and his assistants to be locked in overnight.
They were released when Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly intervened.
"I told stadium security not to let the referees leave until the morning, until I arrived, but a very important person called me and asked me not to cause embarrassment in Turkey and around the world," Haciosmanoglu said.
The Turkish Football Federation has banned Haciosmanoglu from carrying out his official functions for 280 days and fined him 150,000 Turkish lira (£34,250).
not the best way to deal with referee issues :facepalm:
Ref locked in dressing room overnight
Football
Posted at 11:22
Trabzonspor president Ibrahim Ethem Haciosmanoglu and several members of his board have been given lengthy bans after a referee was locked in his dressing room at their stadium.
Haciosmanoglu was angered by match official Cagatay Sahan's decision not to award his team a penalty in a recent game and ordered Sahan and his assistants to be locked in overnight.
They were released when Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly intervened.
"I told stadium security not to let the referees leave until the morning, until I arrived, but a very important person called me and asked me not to cause embarrassment in Turkey and around the world," Haciosmanoglu said.
The Turkish Football Federation has banned Haciosmanoglu from carrying out his official functions for 280 days and fined him 150,000 Turkish lira (£34,250).
not the best way to deal with referee issues :facepalm: