Kung Fu Wiese
Werder Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wiese was guilty of a shocking challenge on Hamburg’s Ivica Olic in the Bundesliga yesterday. The Kung Fu attack can be seen here, for which Wiese received only a yellow card.
(For more on “Calamity Wiese,” who was linked with Manchester United in recent weeks, see here.)
May 8th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
He must have thought he was Harald Schumacher.
May 8th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Actually, I think the caution was correct. Olic’s play acting aside, Wiese was clearly playing the ball, he landed on Olic rather than struck him, and made contact only with Olic’s shoulder. Certainly he was reckless, but not reckless enough to earn red.
IMHO, Olic should have been cautioned as well. The grabbing of his head and eye when he was clearly struck on the shoulder was clearly an effort to deceive the referee and should have been punished as such.
May 9th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Any chance of a link to Harlod Schumacher’s similar ‘challenge’ ?