Re: [nas] Off-topic: player fired for refusing to warm up

Not cold at all. I would have done the same thing if a player refused to 
play. Why am I paying you a few million dollars if you won't play when I 
tell you to?

David Allan wrote:

> > In the 90th minute of this weekend's Ajax-RBC Roosendaal game, RBC coach
> > Robert Maaskant told Nigerian substitute Ode Thompson to get ready to
> > play. The player refused to do so, unwilling to warm up for only a few
> > minutes of action. The Nigerian was fired on the spot. Thompson wasn't
> > even welcome on the RBC team bus and had to take a train back to
> > Roosendaal.
> >
> >    
> Wow, that's cold. But then again, I never did understand the point of
> giving a player a minute or less of playing time.
>
> Don't most referees add on time if you sub late strictly to run the clock?
>
>  

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