Byron Moreno Arrested for Heroin Smuggling: Italy Riots In Celebration
First Bruce Pearl and now this! My cup of “what goes around comes around” is overflowing so much it’s causing a flash flood warning.
For those of you who don’t remember, back in 2002 South Korea and Japan hosted the World Cup. Neither country had ever made much of a dent on the world soccer scene, so expectations for their success in the tournament was not high.
Lo and behold, the South Koreans made the damn semi-finals, knocking off Spain and then Italy in two of the more controversial matches in the tournament. The Italian match was especially curious. Not only were the South Koreans awarded a controversial penalty late in the game, the ref also sent off Italy’s best player under dubious circumstances, and disallowed an Italian goal that would have won the Italians the game. Needless to say, the Italians eventually lost the game. Now the entire country of Italy knows how Roy Jones feels.
Afterward, that referee, Byron Moreno, jumped in a solid gold jet that the South Korean Football Association paid for, and flew back to Ecuador to count his money.
Whatever the South Koreans paid him wasn’t enough. Shortly after returning home, he was banned from referring in Ecuador after he put ELEVEN minutes of extra time on a game. A game which he obviously had a side interest in…
Now comes the news that he has been arrested in New York for trying to smuggle heroin into the US. No word yet on how much the South Koreans will have to pay to get him out of jail. Who knows? Maybe they used up all their extra cash trying to assasinate Apolo Ohno?
