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The best referee video...EVER

Posted 7/10/2008 on Soccer By Ives

In the game of soccer, some referees are great, some are good, and as Jason Kreis reminds us constantly, some are terrible. What they usually aren't is drunk. At least not unless you're in Belarus, where one referee had a few (dozen) too many and actually tried to referee a match. The video has to be seen to be believed: There is no truth to the rumor that U.S. Soccer is set to hire ...

HHR Hugs it Out [7.10.08]

Posted 7/10/2008 on Hugging Harold Reynolds

NCAA Football: Where Men are Made...or Arrested (Legend of Cecilio Guante) Drunk Soccer Ref Vid (NESW sports) High School Basketball Star Lance Stephenson is Bored (The Sports Point) Pulling a Livingston (The World of Isaac) John Madden weighs in on Brett Favre (The Camel Clutch)

If Only The NBA Had These Ref Problems Instead

Posted 7/10/2008 on SPORTSbyBROOKS

By way of SPORTS CRACKLE POP comes this video of Belarus league soccer referee Sergei Shmolik being escorted from the field. At first it seemed that Shmolik was suffering from some sort of back pain, and he was taken to the hospital for tests. The results showed that he had high levels of alcohol in his system. Why did they have to wait for the test results to determine that he was ...

Reason #367 Not To Heckle Referees

Posted 7/10/2008 on On The Pitch

They may start drinking. I know, I know - I shouldn’t joke around because if a drunk ref showed up at my kid’s match I’d be a bit upset. But still, I found it hilarious the kids (at least they look like older kids) continued to do thier post-match drills while the ref was slowly (VERY slowly) helped from the field.

Drunk Soccer Ref At Belarus Match

Posted 7/10/2008 on FanIQ Blog

By now, I think a fair number of people have seen this drunken ref video. That's ok though, because it never gets old. But I'm sure not many people know the background. You know this drunken fool/hero reffed the whole game drunk? This video isn't from the beginning of the game, or even from halftime. It's from when the game was over. And naturally it's from former Soviet Block ...

IF I WERE A SOCCER REF, I'D DRINK TOO

Posted 7/10/2008 on With Leather - Sports news and gossip for cybernetic chimpanzees

Here's Belarussian soccer referee Sergei Shmolik hard at work , much in the same way I'm hard at work right now. Referee Sergei Shmolik was helped off the field with back pain while officiating a Belarus league match, but later was shown to be drunk... Shmolik was hardly moving by the end of the match, which ended in a 1-1 draw, officiating from the central circle by the end of the game.  ...

The Pac-10 should hire this referee, if not already employed

Posted 7/9/2008 on The Sports Culture

Despite how questionable you feel a referee is, The Guys Who Make The Calls always appear to be the sharpest and attentive workers on courts and fields — with the exclusion of the Pacific 10 Conference, the NBA and now, Belarus . Appears that referee Sergei Shmolik drank so much that he rode the mechanical bull before a soccer match in Belarus. Due to back pain, Shmolik was helped off ...

Drunk Soccer Ref...need I say more?

Posted 7/9/2008 on Where's Ubaldo?

Sergei Shmolik, a ref for the Belarus soccer league, came on to the field in the second half acting a bit strange Saturday. At first, it appeared as if he had pain in his lower back. Reports say that the official stopped running up and down the field and just officiated from the center circle. After the game he was taken to a hospital and tests showed that he was not suffering from back pain, ...