What happened during the Bundesliga 2 match between Preussen Munster and Hertha BSC went beyond anything usually seen on a football pitch. Quite literally, Munster fans broke the game.<\/p>\n
It was the 44th minute when Hertha’s Mikel Cuisance went down inside the Munster penalty area. Referee Felix Bickel soon received a call from the VAR room and headed to the pitchside monitor to review the incident.<\/p>\n
He got there, but the screen was completely black.<\/p>\n
The reason? Two Munster supporters had jumped the barrier, reached the cable setup and pulled the monitor’s power cords out of the socket.<\/p>\n
Left with no replay and no way to review the footage, Bickel had to make the decision almost blindly. After a lengthy consultation with his assistants, he ultimately awarded a penalty to Hertha.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, as the referee was still discussing the call, a banner appeared in the Munster ultras’ section: “Turn off VAR.”<\/p>\n
Just like that, an extraordinary scene unfolded, one that is likely to be talked about across Germany and beyond. Even Hertha coach Stefan Leitl felt compelled to comment.<\/p>\n
“That’s simply unacceptable,” Leitl said. “Imagine if more decisions had to be made afterwards and you don’t have the VAR footage available. Technology is part of football now – you may like it or not, but situations like this cannot happen.”<\/p>\n
Ironically, it later turned out that Bickel’s decision to award the penalty was correct.<\/p>\n
The bigger question now is what kind of punishment awaits Munster after the bizarre episode. The club released a statement expressing regret over the incident and confirmed that urgent measures have been taken to ensure nothing similar happens again.<\/p>\n
Initial findings suggest the act may have been planned – perhaps as a protest against everything modern football has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened during the Bundesliga 2 match between Preussen Munster and Hertha BSC went beyond anything usually seen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,21084,190,7270,20795],"class_list":{"0":"post-36441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-berlin","8":"tag-berlin","9":"tag-bundesliga-2","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-hertha-berlin","12":"tag-var"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116201745613083475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}