17 hours Ago By Alex Smith
REFEREE Stefan Kahler abandoned a match before it had kicked off...
after a child bit his TESTICLE. The German official was due to take charge of Sunday's clash between FC Taxi II and Rot-Weiss Mulheim III. 1 The referee called off the game due to the pain he was in Credit: Getty But he was at the centre of a bizarre off-the-ball incident as he checked players' registrations on the pitch.
Kahler said in his report that he had been attacked by one of the FC Taxi players' children. The lower-league fixture in Duisburg, Germany was called off with the ref left in agonising pain. He wrote: "While I was checking the FC Taxi players' ID, a small child was doing warm-up exercises alongside the players.
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