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Brazil: Cops back up ref, spray players


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdMYPaDplMo

Here's some crazy business. The ref gets surrounded after issuing a red card, sent off player refuses to leave the pitch. Ref then calls in the cops to protect him. Cops proceed to pepper spray the eff out of the surrounding players. If the cops thought this was a good way to get the game going again they were wrong, as obviously having half your team pepper sprayed will lead to an abandoned match, so what were they thinking...

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While this is crazy, it should also be kept in its proper perspective. This game took place in the Campionato Rondonia. That is the most westerly state of Brazil below the Amazon. The teams involved were Genus and Moto with Genus being the team pepper sprayed.

Genus was Rondonia's participant in Serie D of the Brazilian Championship but it unlikely would would have been involved at that level if it happened be from one of the more populous states in Brazil. Incidentally, attendance at the game in question was about 500 people.

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