Verhaeghe stood after the game, in which Christos Tzolis was excluded and Club received a penalty for hands, in the catacombs of the Jan Breydel Stadium, when Visser moved towards the dressing room. “Are you going to give me a card too? You were terribly bad today. You shouldn’t do so silly,” TV cameras picked up. In his report, Visser also signed up: “We pay for this. This is not possible in this way, or we have to intervene budgetary.”
The Federal Parket argued that Verhaeghe had intimidated the referee and that as chairman he had to keep his emotions under control. “The supporter Bart Verhaeghe has to hold his emotions in front of the stands, in the tunnel he is as chairman and he has to try to curb it.”