#2 The football gladiator
If there ever was a football version of the Gladiator styled, ‘are you not entertained,’ this substitution would come close. As the fourth official’s board read number 9 in red and 35 in green, Marko Pentalic couldn’t believe it.
“Meee?!” was the reaction that ensued once he had the epiphany that he was the player chosen to be subbed out for a young Christopher Samba. In fact, his team-mate had to nudge him to get out of the pitch.
But that was when Pentalic’s theatrics escalated further. As he was walking off the pitch, he was bowing to the crowd and applauding them as if he had gifted them the show of their lives. When the referee had enough of it, he stopped the outgoing striker and showed him a yellow card for his exaggerated actions.
But Pentalic further infuriated the referee by bowing down to him as well.
