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Cheating may win you games but not dignity, and sometimes players can take the noble way in the harsh nature of football. Bursaspor’s Turgay Bahadır admitted that he handballed while assisting a goal in a league match but his award was getting a yellow card
This set of photos show Bursaspor’s Turgay Bahadır confessing to referee Kamil Abitoğlu, admitting that he handballed in the build-up to a goal that would be disallowed during the team’s Samsunspor game. AA photo
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Is there something such as a prize for good conduct in football? The answer is no, if referee Kamil Abitoğlu’s decision to punish Bursaspor’s Turgay Bahadır for turning himself in is anything to go by.
During the first half of the match day’s closing game, Turgay passed a high ball to teammate Stanislav Sestak, only for the Slovakian forward to score past Samsunspor goalkeeper Ahmet Şahin on Nov. 21. After allowing the goal, Abitoğlu was immediately surrounded by visitors’ players, who heatedly claimed Turgay had handled the ball. Abitoğlu then called Turgay and asked if the claims were true. The Vienna-born attacker admitted that Samsunspor’s players were right in their appeals and that, yes, he had handled the ball.
“He asked me if I had [handled], and I told him the truth,” Bahadır told NTV Spor television channel following the game. “I would do the same if that happened in the Champions League final. At the end of the day, everybody would see that the ball struck my arm.”
From: here
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