Arrogance attacks at the end: Rummenigge is even honored by Spott-Tor

In Bremen they discussed for a long time an injury time scene in their match against VfB Stuttgart on Sunday. Silas Wamangituka’s provocatively casual goal was deemed unsportsmanlike by many. But it is worth looking back to correctly classify this action.

It was the excitement of the weekend: many football fans considered that Silas Wamangituka’s goal of Stuttgart to make it 2-0 at SV Werder Bremen was a tremendous unsportsmanlike, because Wamangituka, after spitting the ball at the foot of the Werder Jiri Pavlenka, Tor could run free, taking an irritatingly long time for the net. SV Werder Bremen players, especially striker Davie Selke, were also angered by the arrogant nature of the VfB forward.

It is questionable whether Silas Wamangituka’s action was really as unsportsmanlike as it seemed (had to work) at first glance. You can follow the Stuttgart player’s argument that he just wanted to win as long as possible, which was obviously not entirely absurd for everyone in view of SV Werder’s storm and stress phase before and Bremen’s subsequent goal in the 93 minute of play, you can continue. And wasting time, even if it is never pleasant, is more of a minor foul in everyday professional football.

By the way, it is interesting that a similar approach was evaluated completely differently almost forty years ago. Well at the time it was a friendly match as part of an international summer tournament in Aachen and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who scored the goal to make it 4-0 in the 57th minute for Bayern Munich against FC Bruges, had something else to do. Think of something special, but that’s exactly what capped your campaign.

Rummenigges unsportsmanlike goal of the month

Because the Lippstadt-born, after letting the Club Brugge goalkeeper out, on this stage, who was awarded the “Goal of the Month” in July 1981, not only took a long break shortly before the line, no, he paid the ball even higher and casually headed. It was not serious unsportsmanlike conduct at the time.

Unlike 13 years later, when Bayern’s Thomas Helmer legendarily passed the ball past the club’s shell in a 2-1 win against 1. FC Nürnberg on 23 April 1994. Helmer said nothing that day when referee Osmers miraculously scored one of the strangest goals in Bundesliga history. The then vice president of FC Bayern was Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, by the way. And after seeing the phantom goal dozens of times, he smugly said: “We won’t get the ball.” The DFB had to solve the charade in hindsight and decided it had to be a replay.

“If I had rubbed one …”

Another unforgettable situation in the history of the Bundesliga can also help shed light on the subject of unsportsmanlike conduct from a broader perspective. The goal that Manni Burgsmüller, who died last year, scored in the 1985/86 season for SV Werder Bremen against 1. FC Kaiserslautern should certainly be mentioned in this context.

Burgsmüller himself described his goal from minute 55 in the following way: “Ehrmann has the ball, I am next to the goal, getting up and wanting to go to the center. Then I see Gerry stopping. I approach him and push. the pill out of his arm with his hand. If the ball falls to the ground and I push it in. ” Lauterer’s goalkeeper was anything but pleased and threatened Burgsmüller with his fist. Burgsmüller: “Ehrmann was a bodybuilder and could barely run for strength. If I had rubbed one of mine …”

It would have been deserved for another reason, because Burgsmüller whispered in the ear of the excited goalkeeper: “The goal is when the referee whistles.” An action in its entirety, which without a doubt should not be described as rascal, but clearly unsportsmanlike.

And one more story to classify the Wamangituka scene this weekend. Many will remember: Andreas Möller’s famous “Schutzschwalbe” on Matchday 26 of the 1994/95 season against Karlsruher SC. At that moment Möller took off spectacularly in the KSC penalty area, although his opponent Dirk Schuster was standing meters away from him. Möller in a first reaction later: “He was a protective swallow. I thought Dirk Schuster would blow my mind.”

The excitement after this match, which was still important for the title that BVB later won, was enormous in German football. But after some time in the country, Möller was smart enough to admit his mistake: “I’m human too.” The rude unsportsmanlike conduct and the newly created word “Schutzschwalbe” remained, but the apology was accepted.

Bad role model from France

So, and finally another example from France, and then it becomes clear that Silas Wamangituka’s action last Sunday was not entirely fair and not entirely good, but in any case not punishable in the sense of punishable unsportsmanlike behavior.

It was exactly five years ago that Herman Koné scored a goal in his US Concarneau cup match against the amateur club Voltigeurs de Chateaubriant that it shouldn’t have counted, because Koné not only stopped the ball on the line, no, he carried the ball afterwards. He went to the opponent’s box. DFL director of umpires Hellmut Krug later explained that the American Concarneau player should have seen a yellow card for unsportsmanlike conduct. Furthermore, the referee should have done this: “The goal should have been canceled and play should have continued with an indirect free kick at the unsportsmanlike conduct spot.” But the goal counted and was no longer contested afterwards due to the factual decision.

However, the referees did not make any mistakes in Bremen on Sunday. Silas Wamangituka did not misbehave in terms of the rules. And yet the youngster from Stuttgart will likely consider carefully next time whether the tormented three or four seconds make such an action really necessary.