promising

once

Only once did Bebek fall for it. He booked Dutch forward Van Hooijdonk after his opponent made a salto mortale and stayed on the ground for a few minutes. Still, the Lokomotiv way of playing can easily work against you, referees soon have enough of it and will not even stop the game when a real foul is commited. Which was what Ivanov experienced when Kolkka deliberatly stood on his leg.

huh?

The same Ivanov, who in the 20th minute pulled a Feyenoord shirt (those shirts proved not strong enough for Bulgarian hands, twice a player had to get a new one) IN the box, and got booked. Huh? A booking in the box, isn't that a penalty? And if the foul wasn't bad enough for a penalty, than why show a card? Aren't there strict rules for situations like these?

match

A chaotic match with little wars going on between players (well observed by Bebek). Feyenoord could live with a goalless draw, but Lokomotiv could not so their stalling tactic didn't make any sense.