Pro Soccer Game Suspended When Fans Rain Fish Cakes Onto the Field

UPI ^ | JULY 22, 2024 | Ben Hooper

[nickcarraway]

A professional soccer game was suspended in Norway when fans threw fish cakes and other objects onto the field to protest the use of a Video Assistant Referee, or VAR.

The Norwegian Eliteserien game between Rosenborg BK and Lillestrom was initially stopped mere minutes after kickoff due to the fish cakes raining down on the field.

Players returned to the field from the locker room, but the game was stopped a second time when fans from both sides continued to throw fish cakes, and started adding tennis balls and smoke bombs into the mix.

The game was officially suspended after just over a half hour of play with the score 0-0.

The protest surrounded the use of VAR, which fans and even several supporter unions complain leads to referees taking too much time to make decisions, bringing games to long halts in the meantime. The league adopted VAR in 2023.

Some fans at the game were seen holding a banner, which read: "We will never give up, VAR will go away."

Lillestrom said on social media that the game would be rescheduled.

[dfwgator]

VAR is ruining the game. Now every goal you have to wait to see if it’s good or not. Just get better refs.

[Jim W N]

I think soccer in foreign countries and their fans are fairly pathetic.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Of course, it’s worse when you realize that they were eating the fish cakes…

[xp38]

A Norwegian soccer game without at least 3 pallets of fishcakes hurled onto the field is considered a dull affair

[xoxox]

a nice, feel-good story. couldn’t have come at a better time.

[xoxox]

soccer is pathetic everywhere.

[Red Badger]

Lutefisk?........

[DoodleBob]

Liberals are drawn to soccer precisely because it is one of the few remaining venues where American exceptionalism does not prevail. The World Cup, rather, is a working model of President Obama’s foreign policy vision: a world in which America has no special role, where inferior countries are no longer humbled by American greatness, where every country is exceptional, and free shots on goal are not earned, but given away as a handout to those who have mastered the art of falling down. In the group stage, at least, the games can end in a tie.

[Tom Tetroxide]

What’s a fish cake?

[Red Badger]

Patty made of fish.....

[dfwgator]