After the scandalous game

“Smear theater”: Serious accusations against goalie

Patrick Drewes was hit by a lighter.(Bild: GEPA pictures)

After the scandalous match between Union Berlin and Bochum (1:1), there are serious accusations against the visiting keeper Patrick Drewes, who was hit on the head by a lighter. Former referee Manuel Gräfe speaks of a "smear theater" by the goalie.

"The lighter throw is unacceptable," Gräfe wrote on social media. "But so is Drewes' humbug!"

Bochum's goalie had been hit on the head by a lighter thrown from the Union fan sector. A short time later, the keeper went down. Drewes did not return to the pitch when play resumed.

Drewes was examined in detail in a Berlin hospital. While "Bild" spoke of a concussion, Gräfe now claims to have learned from "well-informed circles" that further diagnostics at the hospital were rejected due to the "lack of signs of injury": "No hematoma, no skin injury, no graze."

For Gräfe, "no perpetrator-victim reversal"
 A post that is causing quite a stir in Germany. For Gräfe, it is "not a victim-offender reversal if you note that the victim has no recognizable injury according to the doctors". According to him, it was an "honest assessment of the incident": "He (editor's note: Drewes) is grazed, picks up the lighter, goes down and is later dazed and nothing ..."