{"id":463213,"date":"2026-06-06T00:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463213\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T00:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:42:08","slug":"turkey-2-1-northern-ireland-absolute-madness-callaghan-on-red-card-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/463213\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey 2-1 Northern Ireland: &#8216;Absolute madness&#8217; &#8211; Callaghan on red card decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former captain Marissa Callaghan said that Turkey striker Busem Seker &#8220;had to be sent off&#8221; after she controversially handled the ball before later scoring the winner in their 2-1 victory over Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael McArdle&#8217;s side were trailing 1-0 in the closing stages of a quiet first half in Istanbul when the game sparked to life as Seker handled Fi Morgan&#8217;s goalbound effort on the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Referee Alexandra Collin quickly pointed to the spot and Northern Ireland expected a red card to follow, but the French official opted for a yellow, much to the frustration of the visitors and Callaghan, who was on co-commentary duties for the penultimate World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their anger heightened just after the restart when Seker headed home Selen Altunkulak&#8217;s cross in what proved to be the winning goal which secured the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c362l6xy70jt\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crucial three points<\/a> and second spot for Turkey in Group B2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She has to be sent off for that &#8211; she literally saved it with her hand,&#8221; Callaghan said on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is a blatant handball, I think she thought she was in net for a second. That is a penalty all day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can see the relief on her face [when she is shown a yellow card]. Absolute madness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former captain Marissa Callaghan said that Turkey striker Busem Seker &#8220;had to be sent off&#8221; after she controversially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-463213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}