Today in How You Know You’ve Hit Rock Bottom, we have match officials Marek Pilny and Jiri Jech from the Czech First League.
Pilny and Jech decided it was a good idea to show up stumbling drunk to FK Pribram vs Slavia Prague, a match they were supposed to officiate.
You may be asking yourself: how are you supposed to keep a match in line if you cannot walk in a straight line? This, it appears, was a riddle Pilny and Jech were intent on solving the hard way:
Needless to say, the Czech FA was not too impressed with Pilny and Jech’s actions, and it issued a statement accordingly (H/T Telegraph):
"Pilny was visibly drunk from the beginning of the game. He struggled for balance by the touchline, he fell, at times he ran with the linesman copying his movements. After 10 minutes he had to be guarded by a bodyguard, and at halftime Pilny left for the changing rooms and never came back.”
I’m going to guess Marek Pilny is the lad in the video above.
Unfortunately it seems that there was not much footage captured of Jiri Jech, but that didn’t spare him from being singled out in the report: Jech was “also under the influence of alcohol and allegedly even peed during the game."
Classy, guys. Classy.
