# Not your usual ESPN headline: "Referee beheaded after killing player" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799 "2013-07-06T18:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799/41 "2013-07-08T04:54:45Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > The most interesting part to me is > . > > Quartered? Who the hell quarters anybody anymore? Beheading never really goes out of style, but quartering is just Olde School. They’re Very Traditional People and there happened to be a butcher among the crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799/42 "2013-07-08T14:08:24Z")
> [@](#): > > They then put his head on a stake and planted it in the middle of the pitch. And _then_ what happened? Did they finish the game and play around him? I hate when stories like this leave me hanging. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799/43 "2013-07-08T20:21:33Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > Sadly, he’s behind in the fourth quarter. No, he’s a head. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799/44 "2013-07-09T10:44:24Z")
[Buddy Hackett]That’s gotta hoit!![/Buddy Hackett] ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799/45 "2013-07-09T11:49:40Z")
Am I the only one wondering why the referee had a knife on him in the first place with which to stab the player? And did the crowd use his own knife to butcher him? I can’t see being able to dismember a body with the size knife I would imagine fits in the pocket of referee shorts! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799/46 "2013-07-09T12:17:17Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > And _then_ what happened? Did they finish the game and play around him? I hate when stories like this leave me hanging. What I’m wondering is, if the referee kills one of your players, do you have to use one of your three subs to replace him, or are you granted an extra sub? Do the Laws of the Game mention this scenario? Then, after, the referee has been quartered, his head placed on a stake, etc., does play resume from the position on the pitch where the player was first killed, or from the position of the referee’s head in the center circle? Does it have to be a FIFA approved stake? Also, who won? ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799/47 "2013-07-09T15:48:46Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > What I’m wondering is, if the referee kills one of your players, do you have to use one of your three subs to replace him, or are you granted an extra sub? Do the Laws of the Game mention this scenario? It appears that the player was red-carded. So the stabbing, one might say, was irrelevant to game play since the player was done anyway. Red card, punch, stab, dismemberment. Boy, that gives new meaning to the word “escalation”. The only way it could get worse is if the referee’s union has a nuclear weapon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-espn-headline-referee-beheaded-after-killing-player/662799.md?page=2)