With only 48 hours to go until the FA Cup final WorldwideFootball has heard the Serbian Cup final turned into farce when one of the sides left the field in protest.
Losing 2-1 with ten minutes to go Vojvodina Novi Sad scored what they thought was an equalising goal but while they celebrated the referee Slobodan Veselinovica disallowed the goal.
That wouldn't have been to bad but the referee had awarded Partizan Belgrade a harsh looking penalty a couple of minutes earlier, which turned out to be one 'dodgy' decision to many.
Upset at what he was witnessing Vojvodina Novi Sad coach Zoran Milinkovic ordered his players off the field and into the tunnel back to the dressing room.
Milinkovic refused to turn up for the press conference after the match and his side boycotted the presentation in protest. Despite Partizans attempts to try and get Novi Sad back on the pitch to complete the final 10 minutes Vojvodina were having none of it and decided to abandon the match.
Partizan coach Aleksander Stanojevic said: "We hope there air will be cleared before we play each other again next season because more tension of this kind is the last thing Serbian soccer needs"
In the last couple of months Serbian football has hit the headlines for all the wrong reason including a Euro 2012 qualifier against Italy being postponed after only 6 minutes due to flares being thrown on the pitch and the Serbian fans attacking their own coach outside the ground so many at the Serbian FA would have hoped their showpiece final to go off trouble free. Unfourtunately not!!
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