{"id":1897,"date":"2014-02-16T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2014-02-16T21:50:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T21:50:19","slug":"game-suspended-for-20-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/game-suspended-for-20-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Suspended For 20 Minutes As Fan Throw Smoke Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p itemprop=\"description\">Villarreal&#8217;s home game with Celta Vigo in Spain&#8217;s La Liga was suspended in the 88th minute after a smoke bomb was thrown on to the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Celta Vigo were leading 1-0 at El Madrigal when a canister, which was billowing smoke, was thrown.<\/p>\n<p>Referee David Fernandez stopped play and led both sets of players off the pitch as fans, many covering their eyes, streamed out of the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Play resumed around 20 minutes later and Celta went on to win 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second incident involving items thrown on to a football pitch in Spain this week.<\/p>\n<div>Meanwhile, Atletico Madrid were fined \u00a3492 after an incident on Tuesday when visiting Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo was struck on the head with a cigarette lighter.<\/div>\n<p>On Saturday, a public announcer at Villarreal asked fans to evacuate the ground after the canister was thrown.<\/p>\n<p>Players asked for water as the smoke apparently irritated their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>The object was thrown on the pitch shortly after Chile midfielder Fabian Orellana 83rd-minute goal for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>When play resumed, Celta extended their lead through Nolito in front of a half-empty stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villarreal&#8217;s home game with Celta Vigo in Spain&#8217;s La Liga was suspended in the 88th minute after a smoke bomb was thrown on to the pitch. Celta Vigo were leading 1-0 at El Madrigal when a canister, which was billowing smoke, was thrown. Referee David Fernandez stopped play and led both sets of players off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60,81],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}