Soccer coach accused of faking snowball injury
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ...
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Fun times in Bulgaria, and yet more proof that football managers are terribly exposed out there on the touchline. Take CSKA Sofia coach Stoycho Mladenov, who you can see in the video above being knocked to the ground by an army of Levski Sofia fans wielding ... snowballs.
Mladenov later claimed to have lost consciousness as a result, though not everybody is convinced. The head of Levski’s fan club, Vladimir Vladimirov, accused Mladenov of overplaying the incident:
Children play with snowballs but I haven’t heard of anyone who has collapsed. It was disgusting to watch, his over-acting was so poor.
If that’s true, then it’s one of the finest pieces of simulation on record, though Mladenov says he has a note from his doctor that proves he was injured. His assistant, meanwhile, was less than impressed by the official response:
They began to throw snowballs at us from the start of the game. We informed the fourth official but he said that their behaviour was normal.
Ban snow, we reckon. It’s vicious stuff.
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