iht.com - 7/9/2008
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match MINSK, Belarus : Referee Sergei Shmolik was helped off the field with back pain while officiating a Belarus league match, but later was shown to be drunk. In TV footage shown Wednesday on Russian television, Shmolik staggered as he was helped off the field at the end of Saturday's match. The Belarusian sports Web site Presball reported that the crowd in Vitebsk stadium, where the local ...
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If Only The NBA Had These Ref Problems Instead
sportsbybrooks.com 7/10/2008 — 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 ...
As if Belarusians are ever sober —
soccernista.com
July 10 - 2008
Via Unprofessional Foul and CNN :
Referee Sergei Shmolik was helped off the field with back pain while officiating a Belarus league match, but later was shown to be drunk.
And the next time anyone asks, “have you been drinking?” I’m definitely going with, “No, bad back.”
Video: Drunk Referee Escorted Off Soccer Pitch —
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 ...
This Is One Way to Make Soccer More Fun —
The Sporting Blog
This soccer ref's back pain tends to really act up when he gets wasted:
Yes, the official was so drunk that he had to be escorted off the pitch while working what appears to be a youth soccer match in Belarus:
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 ...
Not another referee scandal —
Pure Point
Loyal reader and good friend, Matt Kleiman, forwards this story out of the glorious country of Belarus. During the second half a Belarus league match on Saturday, fans became increasingly amused with Referee Sergei Shmolik as by the end of the match he was hardly moving and just officiating from the center circle. Eventually, he had to be helped off the field with back pain, but when he got ...
Belarus Football Federation suspend drunken referee, Sergei Shmolik —
Last Kick
10/07/2008
By Telegraph staff
A prominent international referee has been suspended for alleged alcohol abuse after he had to be helped off the pitch at a Belarus league match.
Sergei Shmolik, who officiated at Wembley for England’s 6-0 victory over Luxembourg in 1999, was escorted off the pitch, ostensibly because of back pain, at the end of Saturday’s match between Vitebsk ...
Drunken Ref Escorted Off The Field —
The Offside
Yeah, the summer is supposed to be the boring time when we’re subjected to ZOMG Frank Lamps is goin’ to Inter!!!!!…ZOMG he’s staying!!!!! headlines. But there is actually some football going on and though the quality is often below the desired levels, some of the fodder can be absolutely glorious.
Take, for example, today’s news that [...]
The Pac-10 should hire this referee, if not already employed —
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 Referee in Belorussia —
Soccerphile Football | Soccer Blog
The drunk referee in Belorussia is becoming something of a YouTube classic. Referee Sergei Shmolik was lead from the field and later suspensed by the Belorussian FA. Bet with Bet 365 World Soccer News Soccer betting tips Soccer Books & DVDs Tags Belorussia soccer football referee
Being Hammered New Qualification for Refs —
The Slanch Report
In the NBA Tim Donaghy helped fix games, which is a pretty dastardly thing to do, but the soccer league in Belarus has found a new problem with it’s referees, drunkeness.
Initially, referee Sergei Schmolik was escorted off the field and taken to the hospital for tests because it seemed like his back was hurting him. It wasn’t. His strange refereeing style may have had something ...
Drunk Soccer Ref...need I say more? —
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, ...
Introducing 'Drunk Referee' —
Sports Bastards
Belarus, in the depths of Eastern Europe, is a country famous for... er... not much really, apart from a being a bit too close to Chernobyl. However, it now has a new claim to fame, as home of the world's most inebriated match official, Sergei Shmolik. Here he is in all his glory, refereeing a Belarusian league game. Initially, it was thought he was suffering from back pain, but hospital tests ...
This youth soccer referee isnt drunk —
Clubhouse Cancer
He???s just retarded???or gay???or both. Ok, he's really drunk, but what else is there to do in Belarus? He???s actually not in trouble or anything, they???re just sending him to the pub early so he can reserve the corner booth they all love. Now, this guy??? Technorati Tags: Clubhouse Cancer , crazy referees
The best referee video...EVER —
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 ...
Referee fails alcohol test —
SoccerBlog.com
Transfer season is kind of boring with not much in the way of action.One can hardly blame a ref in Belarus if he tried to enliven the monotony by taking a swig or two from a hipflask hidden between his red and yellow cards.The players only realised something was amiss towards the end of the game when the ref started doing all his refereeing from the centre circle.He swayed with every passing ...
