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From the archives: Scandal at the Haberland

It’s Sunday, 26 February 1967. The sun is playing hide and seek but it’s not cold. The visitors to the Ulrich Haberland Stadium are Bonner SC, who need every point to avoid relegation. Bayer 04 are eighth in the table just four points behind league leaders Alemannia Aachen ahead of matchday 21. 4,000 spectators have come to the game full of anticipation.
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After a nervy start, the Werkself take control and create several chances. The deadlock is broken with the opener on 39 minutes with a goal from centre forward Heinz Reinhard. The team from Bonn equalise on 73 minutes and take a deserved point thanks to a battling performance. Just before the end of the match, as in every home game, a large number of Leverkusen flag-wavers run onto the track and towards the main stand, which takes them behind the goal of the Bonner keeper Horst Mühlmann. There was a not so friendly exchange of words followed by a rash incident after the final whistle.

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The Bonner goalkeeper grabs a twelve-year-old, takes a swing at him and leaves him flat out on the pitch. It is only thanks to the brave intervention of the Bayer 04 stewards that there is no mass brawl. The Bayer 04 fan is taken to hospital and the father of the boy understandably takes legal action.

 

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