{"id":1199409,"date":"2022-09-06T11:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/urinating-goalkeeper-sent-off\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T11:30:21","slug":"urinating-goalkeeper-sent-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/06\/urinating-goalkeeper-sent-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Urinating Goalkeeper Sent Off &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Connor Maseko<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A goalkeeper was sent off in an FA Cup tie for \u201curinating in a hedge\u201d during a first qualifying round match.<\/p>\n<p>Blackfield &#038; Langley FC\u2019s Connor Maseko was caught short in the 76th minute of his side\u2019s 0-0 draw against Shepton Mallet FC when the ball went out for a goal-kick.<\/p>\n<p>The referee decided to show Maseko a red card for the incident, with Blackfield &#038; Langley co-manager Conor McCarthy saying \u201csometimes when you have to go, you have to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ball went out for a goal kick,\u201d McCarthy told the BBC. \u201cHe needed to go to the toilet so he went up against a hedge and their players started shouting saying \u2018what\u2019s he doing?\u2019 to the referee. The referee went up to him and decided to send him off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe protected himself. He was inside the hedge. Sometimes when you have to go, you have to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was gobsmacked. I didn\u2019t expect that [the red card].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all pretty shocked by the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tie will be replayed, and Blackfield &#038; Langley\u2019s official account tweeted to say they hoped they would get \u201cplenty of toilet breaks on route\u201d while Shepton Mallett also posted to say they were looking for a match sponsor, urging \u201cplumbers or portaloo companies\u201d to take advantage.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connor Maseko A goalkeeper was sent off in an FA Cup tie for \u201curinating in a hedge\u201d during a first qualifying round match. Blackfield &#038; Langley FC\u2019s Connor Maseko was caught short in the 76th minute of his side\u2019s 0-0 draw against Shepton Mallet FC when the ball went out for a goal-kick. The referee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1199410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[864,13112],"class_list":["post-1199409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-goalkeeper","tag-urinating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}