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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:18 PM

malaise (106,060 posts)

Dutch football linesman dies from severe head injuries after being beaten by teenagers

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dutch-disbelief-after-linesman-is-killed-over-a-game-of-football-8382321.html
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The Netherlands was in shock today after a 41-year-old Sunday youth league linesman died from severe head injuries apparently sustained while being savagely beaten by a group of teenage football players in an apparently motiveless attack.

Richard Nieuwenhuizen collapsed and was taken to hospital hours after being beaten by three players from the Amsterdam youth club Nieuw Sloten on Sunday afternoon. Doctors said they had been unable to save his life and he died on Monday.

Mr Nieuwenhuizen had been officiating in a match against the rival Buitenboys club in the town of Almere and one of his own sons has been playing. He was set upon by three teenagers aged 15 and 16 after the game ended in a 2-2 draw. “It is unbelievable that something like this can happen,” said Marcel Oost, chairman of the Buitenboys club.
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This violence must stop.

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16 replies	Author	Time	Post
Dutch football linesman dies from severe head injuries after being beaten by teenagers (Original post)	malaise	Dec 2012	OP
probably not motiveless	Enrique	Dec 2012	#1
Its the raging violent jock culture	ProgressiveProfessor	Dec 2012	#2
Sorry, but I need to go orthogonal...	HereSince1628	Dec 2012	#3
Assistant referee	malaise	Dec 2012	#5
Thanks	HereSince1628	Dec 2012	#13
The linesman	sarisataka	Dec 2012	#7
Thanks.	HereSince1628	Dec 2012	#14
Sports builds character	devilgrrl	Dec 2012	#4
Actually, those guy's parents	HappyMe	Dec 2012	#8
Have you ever watched the behavior of some parents at	malaise	Dec 2012	#9
When I refereed youth games	sarisataka	Dec 2012	#10
My sons played in Little League	HappyMe	Dec 2012	#11
+1000	Blue_Tires	Dec 2012	#16
There has to be sports control!	Archae	Dec 2012	#6
I have to admit...	Dr. Strange	Dec 2012	#12
It's part of the way that people behave in crowds.	PDJane	Dec 2012	#15

Response to malaise (Original post)

Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:24 PM

Enrique (22,640 posts)

1. probably not motiveless

they just don't know what the motive is yet.

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:35 PM

ProgressiveProfessor (22,144 posts)

2. Its the raging violent jock culture

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:38 PM

HereSince1628 (26,670 posts)

3. Sorry, but I need to go orthogonal...

WHAT does being a linesman in a youth league mean?

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:56 PM

malaise (106,060 posts)

5. Assistant referee

Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't know what happened here but Administrators should never allow a parent to officiate in matches where his/her kids are playing.

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:39 PM

HereSince1628 (26,670 posts)

13. Thanks

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:03 PM

sarisataka (2,166 posts)

7. The linesman

or more appropriately Assistant Referee signals when the ball is out of bounds, players are offside and often if he sees a foul that the referee may have missed. They also help judge goals and to traffic control during substitutions.

Very sad situation for all of football.

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:39 PM

HereSince1628 (26,670 posts)

14. Thanks.

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:45 PM

devilgrrl (21,033 posts)

4. Sports builds character

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:08 PM

HappyMe (11,845 posts)

8. Actually, those guy's parents

should have built their characters. They failed miserably.

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:09 PM

malaise (106,060 posts)

9. Have you ever watched the behavior of some parents at

youth matches?

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:11 PM

sarisataka (2,166 posts)

10. When I refereed youth games

I ejected parents more often than players

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:16 PM

HappyMe (11,845 posts)

11. My sons played in Little League

for a little while. For the most part the parents were okay. The last year they played, there were a couple of moms that were horrible. Screaming and yelling at the kids about mistakes, bad hits, bad pitches...

She made the mistake of yelling at one of mine. A few of us confronted her at the end of the game, along with the umpire. Her husband came to the games after that.

We didn't get nasty, we just told her to keep her insulting criticism of our kids to her-damn-self.

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Thu Dec 6, 2012, 02:50 PM

Blue_Tires (31,737 posts)

16. +1000

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 03:59 PM

Archae (26,391 posts)

6. There has to be sports control!

To combat the epidemic of sports-related violence!

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 04:22 PM

Dr. Strange (21,527 posts)

12. I have to admit...

I can't wait to hear what Bob Costas has to say about this. Or what Jason Whitlock has to say that gets repeated by Costas.

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Tue Dec 4, 2012, 05:19 PM

PDJane (8,802 posts)

15. It's part of the way that people behave in crowds.

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Since there are more crowds with more population, expect to see this kind of senseless behaviour increase.

Le Bon's The Crowd , Mackay's Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and Willful Blindness by Margaret Hefferman, ranging from the oldest to the newest, are excellent reads on the subject. They are worth a read, and they will give you some understanding of the topic.

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