Soccer. Metalurg vs. Kyiv's Dynamo

Zaporizhian Soccer team Metalurg players express discontent at the vexed decision of arbiter Evgenyi Abrosimov (right) during the Ukrainian Championship match Metalurg vs. Kyiv's Dynamo on Saturday, May 26, 2001 in Zaporizhia. On May 26 in Zaporizhia on the 73rd minute of the game Metallurg vs. Dynamo after the kick towards the gates of Metalurg the ball hit to one of the full-backs and ricocheted towards the gates, where the other Metalurg’s fullback kicked it out . Nevertheless, the chief game arbiter, basing on the side-arbiter Oleg Evstratov’s information (left), scored the goal. The Metalurg players tried to make the judge change his decision. The match protocol says that the Metalurg goalkeeper kicked the judge Evstratov, though the Zaporizhian adherents, referring to the vido-record deny this. Militia interfered with the course of the these events. The Metalurg fans threw plastic bottles from the tribunes and tried to provoke fight against the Dynamo fans. Photo by Egor Sapronov/ UNIAN