Brighton & Hove Albion beat 1-0 West Ham United on Friday night as Glenn Murray scored the only goal of the game.
But the most interesting moment of the match was not picked up by the Sky Sports cameras, nor did it trend on Twitter. In fact, it was hardly even mentioned until CaughtOffside decided to raise awareness, that is.
The moment we are eluding to was not a tackle, shot or a cross. It didn’t even involve any of the players.
Friday Night Football’s major highlight was between referee Kevin Friend and a huge rubber penis that had been thrown from the crowd.
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Friend is the ultimate professional and he proved this by handling the situation – and the dildo – with utter coolness.
He refused to make a scene and simply removed the alien object from the field of play so that the 30,544 spectators at Brighton’s AMEX Stadium could continue to watch 22 men go at it.
Were it not for Getty and their fine photographers, this fine exhibition of refereeing may have gone unnoticed.
Kevin Friend handled himself (and that rubber penis) superbly tonight?
Seriously, HOW has the whole of Football Twitter missed a Premier League referee walking about with a dildo during #FridayNightFootball!??????
Huge credit to Getty? pic.twitter.com/bx9RShZaMX
— CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) October 5, 2018
Shout out to the Press Association too.
EDITORS NOTE: EXPLICIT CONTENT??Referee Kevin Friend picks up a sex toy that was thrown on to the pitch during the match @PAImages #PremierLeague #BHAWHU #Brighton #WestHam #Football pic.twitter.com/rPPp5Iw14W
— steven paston (@StevenPaston) October 5, 2018