{"id":296067,"date":"2023-11-10T01:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=296067"},"modified":"2023-11-10T01:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T01:24:11","slug":"ian-wright-recalls-time-he-kicked-the-referees-door-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/soccer\/ian-wright-recalls-time-he-kicked-the-referees-door-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Wright recalls time he &apos;kicked the referee&apos;s door in&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ian Wright recalls time he &#8216;kicked the referee&#8217;s door in and smashed the room to bits&#8217; after feeling &#8216;wronged&#8217; when he was sent off against Leeds while playing for West Ham<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ian Wright was incensed when he was shown a red card against Leeds in 1999\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The striker recalls smashing up the referee&#8217;s changing room in a huge outburst<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the WORST Premier League hat-trick? &#8211; Find out on It&#8217;s All Coming Up<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ian Wright has opened up on the time when he broke into the referee&#8217;s room and &#8216;smashed it to bits&#8217; after believing he had been wrongly sent off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former striker was sent off for West Ham playing against Leeds in 1999, a game the Hammers went on to lose 5-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wright was sent off with a second yellow 16 minutes into the game after the referee thought he had fouled Ian Harte.<\/p>\n<p>He told the\u00a0<span>Stick to Football\u00a0podcast<\/span>: &#8216;I got sent-off against Leeds for West Ham. It was Ian Harte, I didn&#8217;t catch him with the challenge, I know I didn&#8217;t catch him but he went over and was rolling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was one of those when you see someone see the red card and they look surprised.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/00\/77632651-0-Ian_Wright_has_opened_up_about_the_time_he_stormed_into_the_refe-m-112_1699577662822.jpg\" height=\"407\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Ian Wright has opened up about the time he stormed into the referee&#8217;s changing room and &#8216;smashed it to bits&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/00\/77632685-0-image-a-111_1699577659651.jpg\" height=\"513\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>About the outburst, he said: &#8216;I felt so wronged that I lost all emotion. I lost all my composure&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/10\/01\/77632759-12732743-Wright_shown_playing_against_Southampton_played_for_West_Ham_dur-m-34_1699578622189.jpg\" height=\"523\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wright, shown playing against Southampton, played for West Ham during the 1998-99 season<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I felt so wronged that I lost all emotion. I lost all my composure and I started effing and blinding with him then I did the thing that you just don&#8217;t do &#8211; chasing the ref to try and talk to the ref.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I had two or three players stopping me, so because I couldn&#8217;t get to him, I&#8217;m walking off and you&#8217;d think that was it but then I kicked the referee&#8217;s door in and smashed the room to bits. That was the emotion.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Wright continued: &#8216;I felt so wronged by the situation. The only thing I remember is coming back out after smashing the room to bits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I kicked the door in and you&#8217;d think that would have been it. But I went in, threw all their gear in the bath, threw the television against the wall and then, as I walked out, David Elleray was coming the other way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I didn&#8217;t even take my kit off &#8211; I just took my gear off the peg and drove home. Then Harry Redknapp called me and said: &#8220;What the effing hell has gone on?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think I got fined about \u00a318,000 for that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t just face a hefty fine. Wright was banned for the next three games, though there were only two left to play that season.<\/p>\n<p>He missed a 6-0 battering at Everton and then a 4-0 win as West Ham battled to fifth in the Premier League, their second-best placing ever in England&#8217;s top flight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12732743\/Ian-Wright-recalls-time-kicked-referees-door-smashed-room-bits-feeling-wronged-sent-against-Leeds-playing-West-Ham.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian Wright recalls time he &#8216;kicked the referee&#8217;s door in and smashed the room to bits&#8217; 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