Attack against referee

Did the Upper Austrian club fall victim to its own welcoming culture?

A red card from one of the club's own assistant referees triggered the scandal, after which chairman Modrey seems to have tired of his job.(Bild: Harald Dostal, DIENER/Nina Manhart, Krone KREATIV)

A major scandal broke out during a lower division match in Upper Austria. A footballer became violent towards his (!) club's own assistant referee after being sent off, prompting the police to deploy three patrol cars. The chairman sees integration trampled underfoot.

"After such an unbelievable incident, you have to ask yourself whether volunteer work makes any sense at all!" Markus Modrey, chairman of the Upper Austrian eight-a-side soccer club Westbahn Linz, is thinking hard about this after the scandal in the 1b match against Steyregg. The duel ended with the match being abandoned in the 85th minute, followed by a police intervention. But what had happened?