Referee Daniel Bennett faced death threats from Nigerian club Heartland FC’s fans, after a 1-1 draw in the CAF Champions League.
The Sunday Times’ reports that seven “large and angry” Heartland fans barged into Bennett’s dressing-room after the match against Algerian side JS Kabylie six weeks ago in Owerri, shouting: “Phone your family, because you won’t be seeing them again.”
Bennett had officiated — and ruled offside a late Chinedu Efugh effort that would have put the hosts 2-1 up.
“In Nigeria, you don’t take that stuff lightly,” Bennett tells the Sunday Times. “But I and my assistants just waited for help to arrive. If you react or get aggressive in those situations, you have serious issues. You don’t look them in the eye, you just look calm.
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