Mark van Bommel “Lets His Pot Boil Over”

By: Daryl | February 25th, 2008

Mark van Bommel gestured his way to an injury time red card during the Bayern Munich vs Hamburg Bundesliga battle on Sunday, which finished 1-1. The Dutch midfielder got one yellow for the initial slide tackle his reaction to not getting a throw-in, then another for the inventive sarcastic applause + up yours gesture combo.

Top style points for Van Bommel, but also good eyes from the ref who somehow spotted the second, more offensive gesture even with his back turned. Do German refs actually have eyes in the back of their head? Or maybe rear view mirrors on their shoulder pads? Or did MvB say something offensive to go along with his gesture, making it a unique triple insult?

[via Unprofessional Foul]

Category: Bundesliga

Tags: bayern munich, bayern munchen, hanburg, mark van bommel, red card, sent off, Bundesliga, Tag Index

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• Lucas |  February 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm

  
  
  

  True story: I had almost the exact same experience when I was 10. Instead of a referee it was my best friend’s Dad, and instead of a yellow card it was him telling me I wasn’t allowed to come in and play with my friend. As I walked back across the street I turned around and gave the ‘up yours’ and there was the Dad watching me through the open door. I was mortified. I got over it.

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• mele419 |  February 25th, 2008 at 5:22 pm

  
  
  

  Initial tackle?
  Looked like the hamburg player tackled MvB to me.
  Or maybe I’m crazy.
  But it looked like the hamburger (haha) tackled MvB, MvB went to take the throw in, the ref called the throw-in to go the other way, the hamburger ran around and grabbed the ball out of MvB’s hand. MvB then proceeded to smack the ball out of the hamburger’s hand. I think that was where the initial yellow came from.

  Unless i’m crazy.

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• Daryl |  February 25th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

  
  
  

  You’re right mele. I rewatched the gesture bit so many times I forgot to get a proper look at the initial tackle. It was the Hamburg player who slid in on van Bommel, and then seems like MvB got the first yellow for dissent, for smacking the ball out the Hamburg player’s hands.

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• mele419 |  February 25th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

  
  
  

  Also, I think the ref was just turning around as MvB did the gesture, so he saw it.

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• mctalian |  February 25th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

  
  
  

  ha-ha…I find the smart-arse clapping funnier than the gesture.

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• Sam |  February 26th, 2008 at 8:42 am

  
  
  

  Haha, that is pretty good.

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• Charlton Heston |  February 27th, 2008 at 8:34 am

  
  
  

  Yea the hand clapping was classic.

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• karla |  April 10th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

  
  
  

  me encanta mark v. bommel, es muy sexie que no haria con el si lo tuviera frente mio

  karla de chile

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