10 Crazy Reasons Footballers Were SACKED By Their Club
1. Johnny Dos Santos - Karate Kicking A Ref
The moment you put your hands on an official, you know you're in trouble.
The moment you karate kick one, your career may very well be over.
That's exactly what happened when Brazilian football player Johnny Dos Santos decided to take aim at a referee in the wake of a lower league game between Independente Limeira and Marilia in 2013.
In the video, Dos Santos can be seen wandering up to the referee before unleashing a sudden karate kick to his shoulder, leaving the official with multiple cuts on both his shoulder and arm.
The defender was then immediately arrested and sacked by his club not long after being taken away by the authorities.
We've seen referees knocked over and the occasional shoving match, but to see one booted so viciously after simply trying to do their job is both sad and disturbing in equal measure.
There's no word on what happened to Dos Santos in the aftermath of this truly insane reaction to losing a game of football, but hopefully he's put his kicking to good use and has taken up some form of martial arts in the years since his ref-KO.