World Cup official attempts suicide after Italian victory

[Rodion Romanovich]

From BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5168890.stm
the man shot himself in the head and is currently in a very critical condition in a hospital. Comments?

edit: changed title to attempts suicide, sorry for the initial mistake

[edyzmedieval]

Oh my god... We never expected this, did we?
SHOCKING. At least...

At least he was a France supporter.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before? Well, the articles says the reason was unclear, but the correlation to the result of the finals might be a causality. The WC before the finals was after all a great success apart from 1 game-deciding incorrect ref decision and a few games that saw bad reffing but luckily probably didn't change the result.

[Ser Clegane]

Fraom what I have heard about it "after the Italian victory" only indicates the timeline and not at all any causality

[Banquo's Ghost]

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before?

Well, I recall a story (almost certainly apocryphal) about a Liverpool fan - already depressed at the time - who killed himself at half-time in the Champions League Final, when the Reds were 3-0 down to AC Milan and looked like being humiliated.

Of course, they came back to 3-3 and won the cup on penalties after one of the great games of the modern era.

[R'as al Ghul]

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before?

I can imagine that it happens all the time, only we aren't told.
Do you remember the killings after Columbia was kicked out of a WC?
Must have been early nineties?
One or more players were shot, iirc.

[Dutch_guy]

Just wondering - has anyone ever committed suicide over a football result before? Well, the articles says the reason was unclear, but the correlation to the result of the finals might be a causality. The WC before the finals was after all a great success apart from 1 game-deciding incorrect ref decision and a few games that saw bad reffing but luckily probably didn't change the result.

Haven't heard of such a case before, shocking really.

On a side note, what was his role in the WC final match ?

Do you remember the killings after Columbia was kicked out of a WC?
Must have been early nineties?
One or more players were shot, iirc

Yeah a defender that made an own goal (against the US ) which made them lose the match (1-0) and caused their elimination, was shot by the drug mafia in Colombia. Apparently they machine gunned him, yelling Goal ! with each shot they fired....

[InsaneApache]

Escobar.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Geez.

Yes, it must be unbearable to organize this cup and then see the wrong team win. But you don't commit suicide over it. What an ass.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

We only wrecked my 76 cm Philips flatscreen.

[InsaneApache]

We only wrecked my 76 cm Philips flatscreen

I'd rather have shot myself in the head.

[Rodion Romanovich]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

We only wrecked my 76 cm Philips flatscreen.

Nice, please send that already broken flatscreen some greetings from me

[Devastatin Dave]

Man, some people sure take this silly soccer thing a bit too serious. This guy must be a real **** up, can't even kill himself correctly.

[Ser Clegane]

OK - again - so far there isn't any indication at all that this suicide attempt has anything to do with the result of the match.

[Red Peasant]

It can't have helped though.

[Ser Clegane]

Why?

I do not see any indication that he rooted for France and not for Italy

[Rodion Romanovich]

There isn't just about which team you support, but also whether the winner was sportsmanlike. I for instance supported Portugal early on but thought they became too unsportsmanlike to support, same thing for Holland after Boularouz tried to put Ronaldo out of action, so I stopped liking both teams after initially supporting them both. But many people seem to forget unsportsmanlike behavior if they support the team, and keep supporting it no matter what - nasty nationalism, I would call it, even when the team isn't your own.

[Dutch_guy]

There isn't just about which team you support, but also whether the winner was sportsmanlike. I for instance supported Portugal early on but thought they became too unsportsmanlike to support, same thing for Holland after Boularouz tried to put Ronaldo out of action, so I stopped liking both teams after initially supporting them both. But many people seem to forget unsportsmanlike behavior if they support the team, and keep supporting it no matter what - nasty nationalism, I would call it, even when the team isn't your own.

I understand you Legio, but has there ever been a team who won the WC who played an entire tournament as role model of sportsmanship. All teams want nothing more than to win, and therefore tend to get carried away in the thick of the match. Which leads to some rather unsportsmanlike events to take place. Really, in football, nobody is one hundred percent innocent.

And yes, people do tend to keep supporting the team, but not the actions committed by certain individuals of that team.