So ugly when politics enter the sports, turns it into dirty fight. It started with Swiss media after Switzerland and Turkey were to play for in a play-off for world cup.
Swiss media's efforts on creating tension beforethe game gave efforts, and the game started with whole Swiss stadium whistling when Turkey hymn was playing, so ugly! Everybody knows that
Turkey is much more quality team than Swiss team. Turkey played badly there, not their usual performance, they lost 2-0, and maybe affected by things happened there, maybe not. After the fame, their security
guards and players insulted Turkey coach, and beat goalkeeper Volkan, and created mess in the tunnel too.
After 4 days Swiss team is arriving to Istanbul. You will get what you give. They were kept waiting in airport for 2 hours, and were met by Turkish fans who threw eggs to their bus (you asked for it!).
Before the game whole Turkey stadium was whistling when Swiss hymn was playing, I am sure that Swiss were not surprised as they knew it will come when they did the same. Well, game started with a big tension in some Turkish players, and coz of one defender's mistake,
Swiss got free penalty kick in 1st minute. and in aggregate Turkey was 3-0 down. But they showed real attitude, and played their quality game and managed to score 4 goals! The game was totally on Swiss side, Tukey pressing n dominating the game.
There was some tension in the game too. Swiss team was in panick and were busy trying to keep ball away. I was proud the way Turkey played. Unfortunately, near to end of game Turkish player passed to Swiss player by mistake and Swiss player was left one-to-one with goalkeeper.
Game finished 4:2, Turkey won, but in aggregate it was 4:4, and Swiss team qualified due to scored away goals. For this sportive success, congratulations for Switzerland!
Now it is possible to imagine emotions of players just after the game, it is not clear who started the fight, Turkish media says it is Swiss player Huggel who kicked Turkish coach assistant (below is the picture), Swiss media says it is Turkish players, also that security guards beat some Swiss players.
Well, again, Turkey players were treated the same way in Switzerland, whole turkey knows that as well as security guards, and if you are Swiss and trying to fight with Turkish in Turkey then you'll definitely be beaten up with anyone there. I guess, if I was a security guard there, with all those emotions and pity that my team lost,
and with seeing Swiss players still jumping to fight, I would also beat them. coz they were simply asking for it. you are away from home, and behave like a guest, visitor then. Fot this events, shame on both sides who were involved.
It is ugly, for things happened at both sides, both are guilty in this way, if punished then both should be given punishment.
FIFA president Blatter, of Swiss nationality, claimed that he will be strict and punishments can go upto disqualification from tournaments and was pointing at Turkey, without waiting for referee's and observers' reports, and FIFA (and its president) has no right to dictate punishments, they can suggest to FIFA Discipline Committee who will decide after hearing all witnesses and reading all official reports.
Yet, Blatter started to threaten long before the decision. He says he will not act as Swiss, but as FIFA president... We'll see... Not too long ago, FIFA made terrible mistake as a result of which Uzbekistan lost his advantage to qualify. Briefly, in first game Uzbekistan was leading 1:0, and they earned penalty kick in 1st half time. They scored. Referee accepted the goal, but after Bahrain player's protest and after talking ot side referee that another Uzbek player ran into box before penalty was kicked, he cancelled the goal. This is normal in football, but then the penalty is always repeated in this situation. The referee wanted to repeat it, but after some protest by Bahrain players, he even cancelled penalty kick! and instead he decided that actually that was a foul by Uzbek players and gave foul kick to Bahrain team!!! Such a stupid decision!
Game ended 1:0, whereas it should have been 2:0 in the first half time. Uzbek Football Federation sent report and complained to FIFA, instead of giving that goal to Uzbekistan, or automatically giving them 3:0 win, or repeating game from that penalty minute with a penalty (these are expected fair decisions normally), FIFA even cancelled their first goal and decided that match will be repeated from the beginning! Some say politics are not in football, but for some people in FIFA, rich Bahrain sheikhs are somehow more close than Uzbeks... So ugly...
As a result Uzbekistan played 1:1 at home and 0:0 in nbahrain, they lost from away goals too.
i can not take in these things as a person who hates politics in football, and as two brother nations are affected from it.
Now, it is fair to expect FIFA will give punishments to all guilty ones, not only turkish side. Let's see...
Another funny truth about Blatter who suggested woman football team players should wear sexy shorts, here.
November 28, 2005 
