Saturday, April 16, 2011

Cup-throwing Rating: FC St. Pauli is a "ghost game saves

FC St. Pauli have in spite of the cup-throwing scandal now but do not dispute the first "Ghost Game" of the league's history. The sports court of the German Football Federation (DFB) condemned on Thursday the club instead, the first game of the season unsubscribe at least 50 miles outside Hamburg. This corrected the court in Frankfurt / Main, the first-instance verdict, after which the relegation threatened club's match against Werder Bremen on Saturday before Easter, excluding the public would have to deny.

St. Pauli took the decision as to how the DFB Control. In addition, "may not allow more than 12,500 fans own" the club, the presiding judge Hans E. Lorenz said after the hearing in the DFB headquarters. Prosecutor Anton Nachreiner DFB-Control had again called a "ghost play". The game against Schalke 04 on 1 April was in the 87th Minute been aborted because of a Pauli-Fan the assistant referee Thorsten Schiffner with a thrown beer mug was injured.

The encounter was scored 2-0 for Schalke. St. Pauli's vice president and lawyer Gernot Stenger had been before the Court announced the transition to the Federal Court, if it a "ghost game" would have been in this round. "Against a game to the exclusion of the public we would continue to defend ourselves." He also announced that the club card includes drauflegen 50,000 euros for social purposes, it would only come to a fine.

As the Court according to Lorenz, "not as a water heater" wanted to see and it was felt that Pauli plays in the face of the threatening situation in sporting time, the presiding judge of the witnesses proposed by the parties before a meeting behind closed doors. But there was no compromise to be found.

St. Pauli had objected to the judge's decision of 8 April brought. Stenger said that the club is still "shocked" by the incident ("a horror") was and apologized again for Schiffner. He called but a "ghost game" penalty as "too harsh" and said: ". This act of an individual we can not prevent any protective measure" A suspect that is said to have thrown the beer mug is now determined.

He is said to have been under considerable influence of alcohol. Referee Deniz Aytekin (Altenberg) described how it had come to the match being abandoned. His assistants Schiffner and Holger Henschel (Braunschweig) were also pelted with coins and a lighter. Schiffner even described how he had "suddenly and unexpectedly received a heavy blow in the neck." A doctor at the hospital told him later certified a bruise.

"I was lucky," said the linesman from Constance and spoke of head and neck pain even in the days thereafter.

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