- Referee leads Groningen v Nijmegen players off in 18th minute
- Fan who threw beer ‘out of your mind’, says Groningen official
Saturday’s Dutch league match between relegation-threatened Groningen and NEC Nijmegen was abandoned after a cup of beer thrown from the crowd struck the assistant referee.
The referee, Richard Martens, took the players off the field in the 18th minute in line with new Dutch football guidelines, brought in earlier this month after crowd violence in the Dutch Cup semi-final between Feyenoord and Ajax Amsterdam.
