Biggest Scandals In Football History. Football is a game with 11 players and one motive, a game that savagely tests the mind and bodies with a great amount of hard work.
Football isn’t just a field game but it is about teamwork, leadership, and moreover sportsmanship. Whether you lose or win, a great football team is a mixture of the right balance of players, good leaders, technicians, and communicators. This game has aggression so to date there have been numerous biggest fights in football.
Biggest Scandals In Football History
1. Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer
This fight occurred in the Premier League when both the players became furious at each other. Dyer refused to pass a ball to the Bowyer and suddenly he lost his temper resulting in scratching, pulling his shirt, and screaming like anything. It is needless to say that both players saw red cards in this embarrassing fight.
2. Rudd Van Nistelrooy and Arsenal
In 2003-04 Manchester United and Arsenal got spat in the league, these two teams met for a match in season and became infamous known as “THE BATTLE OF OLD TRAFFORD”. Arsenal was celebrated as unbeaten and won the League.
3. Eden Hazard and the Swansea ball boy
The ball boys from almost every club have a reputation for being ill-tempered. The ball went behind the goal during a Chelsea match and Hazard went to rectify it and the ball boy threw it on the top of it. Hazard kicked the ball out from the court in a very ruthless way.
4. Francesco Totti and Mario Balotelli
Totti has a reputation of being a gentleman of football, this incident took place when Totti came on Half-time, Balotelli taunted him with, ‘you are finished granddad’. For this act, Totti was accused of racism.
5. Paolo Di Canio and the referee
Referees are mostly the target of the abuse in a pitch, but never face any such consequences from the authorities if they take any wrong or bad decision. In the match between Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal in 1988, Patrick Viera intentionally got involved in getting fouled by Di Canio to get a red card.
This incident resulted in Di Canio losing his senses and he started kicking everyone in sight, also he plunged referee Paul Alcock to the ground.
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