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Temuri Ketsbaia Hoofs The Haway Out of the Advertising Boards
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It’s not really the time for ugly, brutal vandalism (or at least it shouldn’t be).
But that’s what happened when Newcastle’s Temuri Ketsbaia scored a last-minute winner against Bolton Wanderers back in 1998.
Angered by being kept out of the Magpies starting line-up, the Georgian whipped his shirt off and threw it into the crowd and then lay waste first to a McDonald’s advert behind the goal and then to an adidas one – the same company who just happened to make the Magpies’ shirt too.
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He even tried to chuck his boots into the stands – but couldn’t get them off.
"Sometimes when you score a goal and there is some disappointment and you express yourself in the wrong way. It was a bad moment for me,” he said later. “Even when you score a goal, even at that moment, sometimes bad things can happen - not bad things, I just lost my control.
"I did much better things in Newcastle, and people only remember this one!"