Newcastle coach Gary van Egmond is set to face the wrath of Football Federation Australia after launching an angry on-field tirade following his side’s controversial 2-2 draw with Perth today.
Van Egmond stormed onto the pitch and engaged in a fierce war of words with Adrian Trinidad after the Glory midfielder earned the controversial penalty that led to Perth’s 92nd-minute equaliser.
A Newcastle official tried several times to drag van Egmond away as emotions between players from both sides boiled over.
Although no physical contact was made between van Egmond and Trinidad, the incident is sure to be assessed by FFA.
Perth coach Dave Mitchell confirmed van Egmond had called Trinidad a name that was “derogative”, although he refused to elaborate further.
“Well I think Gary was a little bit incensed that the penalty was awarded,” Mitchell said.
“He went on the pitch and I think he had a bit of a go at the ref and said something to Trini, and Trini was a bit upset by what was said so it caused a bit of a fracas.
“I had to go on there to get Trini away from the problem.
“He (Trinidad) just said he was called a name and he wasn’t too happy about it … it was derogative.”
Van Egmond sidestepped questions about the ugly incident.
“We congratulated the referees and congratulated the players and walked off,” van Egmond said.
“I didn’t see that (the two sides coming together), I just saw everyone shaking hands.”
When asked about his angry tirade at Trinidad and what it was about, he replied: “Yeah, just saying how good a game he played.”
Mitchell also accused Newcastle of “not even going for the ball, just going for the man in some cases” in a match that saw five yellow cards and two reds issued.
The Glory were awarded a penalty in the 90th minute when Jade North impeded the path of Trinidad.
Eugene Dadi slotted home the spot kick – which to add to the theatre was ordered to be re-taken after he had netted with his first attempt – to give the home side a deserved point after they had dominated the latter stages of the second half.
Earlier, Tarek Elrich had given Newcastle a lead on the stroke of half-time after Nikita Rukavytsya’s 27th-minute strike cancelled out Joel Griffiths’ earlier goal.
It was a match that featured everything, with referee Matthew Breeze issuing the two dubious reds in the second half.
Perth skipper Jamie Coyne was shown a straight red in the 60th minute while Newcastle defender Daniel Piorkowski was given his marching orders 10 minutes later.
Both incidents appeared to deserve a yellow at worst.
Last month, Sydney coach John Kosmina branded Trinidad a diver after the Argentine collapsed in a heap when Iain Fyfe made minimal contact to his head.
Fyfe was shown a red card for the incident.
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