This referee wasn’t going to let anyone push him around while on the field. As you can see in the above photo, the gun is clearly in the ref’s hand.
Sometimes it’s hard to work under stress. Referee Gabriel Murta must’ve been under a lot of stress in order to pull out this gun.
Gabriel Murta was kicked and slapped by players from lower-leagueAmantes de Bola, while the manager invaded the pitch demanding a red card, it is claimed.
Murta, said to be a policeman by day, reacted by racing to the changing rooms and returning with a firearm.
Here’s how it all went down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i39uWaXvtvo
The referee is now going to speak to a psychologist. Poor thing.
The Minas Gerais Football Federation has already summonsed the referee and a psychologist to a meeting, and I’m going to talk with him today.
On the basis of that conversation and his account of events and the results of the psychological assessment, I’ll decide what if any measures to take.
What’s happened is obviously not a common occurrence, and I don’t want to rush into anything.
At the moment it happened, he’s opted for getting his gun because in his view it was a question of controlling a situation.