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Sevilla coach Juande Ramos is stretchered unconscious from the pitch

 

Sevilla coach struck by missile

 

Ramos was unconscious as he was stretchered from the pitch

The Copa del Rey tie between Real Betis and Sevilla was abandoned after Sevilla coach Juande Ramos was knocked out by an object thrown from the crowd.

 

The incident happened after Sevilla's Freddie Kanoute scored in Wednesday's quarter-final second leg match.

 

The Sevilla players left the pitch, causing the game to be halted, while Ramos reportedly regained consciousness after being treated by medical staff.

 

The first leg, which had been played at Sevilla's stadium, had finished 0-0.

 

The normal procedure in Spain when matches are called off is for the remaining minutes to be played at a later date.

 

The build-up to the Seville derby was dominated by arguments between the two clubs over whether or not Sevilla president Jose Maria del Nido would be allowed in the VIP box at the Betis stadium.

 

After mediation by the Andalucian regional government, Betis finally allowed Del Nido to attend the match although a number of fans threw objects at him as he took his seat.

 

There was further controversy because Betis had placed a bronze bust of Del Nido's arch-rival, Betis owner Manuel Ruiz de Lopera in a seat just behind the Sevilla president.

 

"You have to point the finger at the culprit, only the culprit," said Del Nido, regarding the Ramos incident.

 

"This could have happened at any ground. Nobody can avoid this if, among the thousands of fans who enter the stadium, there are 10 lunatics, and unfortunately this happened here."

 

Del Nido said Ramos had been unconscious for up to 11 minutes before he regained consciousness.

 

Spain's sports minister Jaime Lissavetzky said he would be calling for immediate action from the Spanish Football Federation.

 

"This was a shameful incident," Lissavetzky told Radio Marca. "We will be calling an emergency meeting of the Anti-violence Commission and will ask the Spanish Football Federation to deal with this with maximum rigour.

 

"We must stop incidents such as this or those that happened recently in Italy occurring again."

 

Last season's cup quarter-final second leg between Valencia and Deportivo Coruna was abandoned after a linesman was cut on the head by a coin thrown from the crowd.

 

The remaining 46 minutes were played behind closed doors one week later.

 

Source: BBC Sport - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6406455.stm

Was it a glass bottle then? :o I assumed it was a plastic bottle for some reason when you first said about it but im guessing it was glass to knock him unconscious.