Author Topic: Dutch youth league football linesman dies after attack (Read 2998 times)

Barneylfc∗ · « **on:** December 3, 2012, 10:41:07 pm »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20583970

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A Dutch man has died after being kicked and punched by a group of teenage football players for whom he acted as linesman in a Sunday league match.

Richard Nieuwenhuizen collapsed and was taken to hospital hours after he was beaten by three players from Amsterdam club Nieuw Sloten. He died on Monday.

He had been officiating for Buitenboys club, in the town of Almere, and one of his own sons had been playing.

Three teenagers, aged between 15 and 16, have reportedly been arrested.

Buitenboys club chairman Marcel Oost said Mr Nieuwenhuizen, 41, officiated as linesman for the team every week. "He enjoyed doing it. He was a real football man; he was always here," he told national broadcaster NOS.

News of his death sparked shock in sporting circles around the Netherlands.

The Dutch minister for sports, Edith Schippers, said: "It is absolutely terrible that something like this can happen on a Dutch sports field".

Anton Binnenmars ,of the Royal Netherlands Football Association, described it as "too crazy for words that somebody involved in a sporting hobby becomes a victim of this kind of aggression".

Nieuw Sloten said it was "deeply shocked" by what had happened, and intended to ban for life the players found to be responsible, had pulled their team from the league and temporarily suspended all its operations as a club.

"Violence should not be on the football fields," it said.

Madness this. Must have been horrible for his son to witness.

RIP

Agger · « **Reply #1 on:** December 3, 2012, 10:42:53 pm »

Shocking stuff.

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He had been officiating for Buitenboys club, in the town of Almere, and one of his own sons had been playing.

Jesus fucking christ.

SYLENTm · « **Reply #2 on:** December 3, 2012, 10:44:34 pm »

I read this earlier, insane to think that three 15-16 year old kids would do this...

sinnermichael · « **Reply #3 on:** December 3, 2012, 10:48:18 pm »

what is the world coming to?

Samie · « **Reply #4 on:** December 3, 2012, 10:50:12 pm »

What the fuck.

RIP to the linesman.

24/7 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 3, 2012, 10:58:48 pm »

Oh my. No words.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #6 on:** December 3, 2012, 11:09:35 pm »

Gifted Right Foot · « **Reply #7 on:** December 3, 2012, 11:21:59 pm »

horrible news. RIP.

FernandoSusoLFC · « **Reply #8 on:** December 3, 2012, 11:26:48 pm »

Sad story, ran the line after being asked and ended up dying.

RIP

MikaelLFC · « **Reply #9 on:** December 4, 2012, 12:10:37 am »

Just read about this as well, shocking! Pure madness.

RIP

Sahara · « **Reply #10 on:** December 4, 2012, 12:18:48 am »

Can't even begin to comprehend what goes on in these 15-16 year old kids minds.

RIP.

Cochise · « **Reply #11 on:** December 4, 2012, 12:20:58 am »

Awful. Gang of little bastards.

R.I.P

rushyman · « **Reply #12 on:** December 4, 2012, 12:31:30 am »

Fucking Hell

and for what? Giving a goal kick or offside or something?

Evil little c*nts

Redallover11 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 4, 2012, 01:39:21 am »

Utter madness. Words fail me.

RIP

Beninger · « **Reply #14 on:** December 4, 2012, 01:43:54 am »

WTF?

RedMichelFerri · « **Reply #15 on:** December 4, 2012, 04:11:52 am »

RIP. Its really shocking

Kovai Red · « **Reply #16 on:** December 4, 2012, 05:28:03 am »

Shit. Where the world is heading.

RIP man

Swright90 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 4, 2012, 06:44:57 am »

Having played Sunday League, amateur football at all age groups in my life, I really am not surprised that something like has happened, which says it all really and it's very sad.

You can sense violence close to erupting pretty much every week, whether it be aimed at officials or the opposition. Obviously 99.9999999% of the time nothing like this happens, but I've seen it so many times where one wrong decision, one bad tackle, one word said out of turn and all hell can break loose and there is no protection or security.

Some horrible people can play football at this level and there is no way to stop it happening. I know a few people who have been banned from playing for a certain amount of time, but they just continue to do so because the referee won't know, the venue won't know and the opposition won't know. If anything happens, give a fake name.

Malaysian Kopite · « **Reply #18 on:** December 4, 2012, 06:54:54 am »

Shocking.

RIP.

JohnnoWhite · « **Reply #19 on:** December 4, 2012, 07:02:53 am »

Dreadful that such an attack should have occurred AT ALL never mind ended in the death of a young father for making what some believed was a "wrong" decision?? I really have no possible words for where this world has journeyed to. It's madness let loose.

theredguy03 · « **Reply #20 on:** December 4, 2012, 09:19:19 am »

Hope those nasty creatures are ashamed of what they've done.

A simple task of running the line ends up with you dying, just ridiculous. RIP linesman

JerseyKloppite · « **Reply #21 on:** December 4, 2012, 10:20:54 am »

That's just horrific. Senselss waste of life. RIP.

Hank Scorpio · « **Reply #22 on:** December 4, 2012, 12:03:27 pm »

Very sad.

Quote from: Swright90 on December 4, 2012, 06:44:57 am

Having played Sunday League, amateur football at all age groups in my life, I really am not surprised that something like has happened, which says it all really and it's very sad.

You can sense violence close to erupting pretty much every week, whether it be aimed at officials or the opposition. Obviously 99.9999999% of the time nothing like this happens, but I've seen it so many times where one wrong decision, one bad tackle, one word said out of turn and all hell can break loose and there is no protection or security.

Some horrible people can play football at this level and there is no way to stop it happening. I know a few people who have been banned from playing for a certain amount of time, but they just continue to do so because the referee won't know, the venue won't know and the opposition won't know. If anything happens, give a fake name.

Agree. I will, most likely, never let my son play at that level.

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #23 on:** December 4, 2012, 12:53:59 pm »

In front of his son too?

Fucking hell.

Pheeny · « **Reply #24 on:** December 4, 2012, 01:08:16 pm »

Some border line racist comments have been deleted.

This is not about what language you do or do not speak or from what country you are from and if you think it is then perhaps you are on the wrong forum.

WhoHe · « **Reply #25 on:** December 4, 2012, 01:22:12 pm »

I'll give this thread 10 minutes tops.

MaschHead · « **Reply #26 on:** December 4, 2012, 01:27:35 pm »

Quote from: Pheeny on December 4, 2012, 01:08:16 pm

Some border line racist comments have been deleted.

This is not about what language you do or do not speak or from what country you are from and if you think it is then perhaps you are on the wrong forum.

Thought the language post wasn't that bad, since it explains the core of the problem for this case, maybe my post after that could have been edited to leave out the specific examples.

Pheeny · « **Reply #27 on:** December 4, 2012, 01:46:06 pm »

Quote from: wickedbark on December 4, 2012, 01:13:52 pm

Excuse me why was my comment deleted, i didn't mention race?

yours was deleted as although it had nothing to do with race etc it might have led the others to repost their thoughts

Sat1 · « **Reply #28 on:** December 4, 2012, 01:58:25 pm »

15-16 yr olds. Not suprised by that these days.

MagicHat · « **Reply #29 on:** December 4, 2012, 02:07:03 pm »

MaschHead · « **Reply #30 on:** December 4, 2012, 02:34:23 pm »

The Dutch FA have canceled all amateur games coming weekend.

RedInside · « **Reply #31 on:** December 4, 2012, 03:09:33 pm »

Quote from: MaschHead on December 4, 2012, 02:34:23 pm

The Dutch FA have canceled all amateur games coming weekend.

In addition to that all Eredivisie games will have a 1min silence before the game.

Fucking hell, infront of his son. Hope they get punished severly, but their age will probably get them like 3 or 5 years max...

MaschHead · « **Reply #32 on:** December 4, 2012, 03:50:27 pm »

Quote from: RedInside on December 4, 2012, 03:09:33 pm

In addition to that all Eredivisie games will have a 1min silence before the game.

Fucking hell, infront of his son. Hope they get punished severly, but their age will probably get them like 3 or 5 years max...

I think it's 2 or 3 years youth detention max since they are not adults.

scared_person · « **Reply #33 on:** December 4, 2012, 03:53:05 pm »

Absolutely tragic.

FIFA really need to do more to promote respect for referees and linesmen. Abuse towards referees is tolerated at every level. you see the likes of Rooney and Terry abusing referees every week and you see lads in the park abusing the ref every week. Its a slippery slope which will eventually lead to awful events like this.

There is absolutely no way I would ever be an amateur ref the way things are at the moment.

S.Red please · « **Reply #34 on:** December 4, 2012, 03:55:08 pm »

I don't know what it's like in Holland but I've played Sunday League for a couple of years here in England and pretty much every other week there was some element of violence to it. One bad tackle and all hell breaks loose, flying 2 footed tackles, mouthing off to the ref and linesman and small brawls etc.

Heartbraking that his son was on the pitch. So sad that

R.I.P.

MaschHead · « **Reply #35 on:** December 4, 2012, 03:57:40 pm »

Quote from: scared_person on December 4, 2012, 03:53:05 pm

Absolutely tragic.

FIFA really need to do more to promote respect for referees and linesmen. Abuse towards referees is tolerated at every level. you see the likes of Rooney and Terry abusing referees every week and you see lads in the park abusing the ref every week. Its a slippery slope which will eventually lead to awful events like this.

There is absolutely no way I would ever be an amateur ref the way things are at the moment.

When I played, 15-20 years ago, there was already much abuse and threats towards refs and linesmen, sometimes even us kids had to run from parents from the opposite team. I remember the wife of our coach got attacked with a knife when played an away game at one point. I guess it got only worse since then.

themightybeard · « **Reply #36 on:** December 4, 2012, 04:16:04 pm »

Absolutely horrendous. To be honest I'm not massively surprised - there is a shocking lack of respect for officials at all levels of the game and assaults on them are probably more common than we realise. One or two on here aren't much better - I was told that referees 'set themselves up for' abuse, violence, death threats, etc. so don't deserve sympathy. That kind of pathetic attitude is all-too prevalent it seems and ultimately can lead to a tragic situation like this (I know he was a linesman but it's the same thing.).

astowell1 · « **Reply #37 on:** December 4, 2012, 04:17:20 pm »

Beautiful world we live in isn't it?

Shocking, disgusting, undeserved. RIP

tonysleft · « **Reply #38 on:** December 4, 2012, 04:45:28 pm »

His poor son, beyond words.

Not too Xabi · « **Reply #39 on:** December 4, 2012, 06:57:28 pm »

This is absolutely shocking. To kill someone over a disputed offside/throw in/free kick in a Football match. Ludicrous.

Yet more evidence that mankind continues to merrily peddle backwards into the dark ages.

Sadly, having played amatuer Footie since the age of 12 (I'm 29 now) it really doesn't come as much of a suprise that something like this has happened, and that is fucking depressing.

I've seen some truly awful stuff at Sunday league games down the years including a bloke, who having been sent off, tried to run back onto the pitch mid-game and attack the ref with a claw hammer, and a Dad at a youth match who ran onto the pitch and punched a 15 year old lad who he deemed to have fouled his son.

Hope this poor chaps son makes a full recovery. Can't imagine having to witness something like that aged 16. Would finish most people, mentally.