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Red Cards at Subaru Park After Quinn Sullivan Delivers a Spinebuster to Inter Miami Player Who Tried to Iverson Him
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We had an old-fashioned donnybrook at Subaru Park on Wednesday night at the end of a 2-2 draw between the Philadelphia Union and Inter Messi F.C. –
There’s quite a bit to unpack here:
- Quinn Sullivan goes down in the box. No whistle (fair).
- Miami right back Ian Fray tries to pull an Allen Iverson stepover on Sullivan.
- Sullivan doesn’t like the disrespect, so he gets up and delivers a spinebuster on Fray.
- Four Miami players get in there, then Quinn’s 16-year-old brother, Cavan, runs over to join the melee.
- Yannick Bright gets into it with Cavan and we see some grabbing and clutching and hands to the face.
- Danley Jean-Jacques and a few other guys then come over to defuse the situation.
- Frankie Westfield runs over to Fray like he wants a piece of him.
- Lionel Messi eventually shuffles over to talk to the ref, alongside Andre Blake.
- Cavan Sullivan and Bright are red carded, Quinn Sullivan receives a yellow, and the ref eventually just blows the whistle and ends the game.
It was good form from Quinn, who got Fray with a single-leg/high-crotch and drove him into the dirt, like Cooooooooper DeJean on Derrick Henry. We haven’t seen form this good since Arn Anderson and Farooq were in the World Wrestling Federation back in the 1980s and 1990s.
There was also an incident a little bit before this where Messi had some words for Quinn and gave him one of those European or South American “I’m a veteran” half-slaps to the back of the head:
Nothing will happen because this is Messi F.C. and the rules don’t apply to him, but technically you could card someone for that or discipline them retroactively for hands to the head or neck area. The infraction itself is absolutely nothing, but people point this out when it happens because they think there’s hypocrisy in how Messi is reffed vs. how other guys are reffed.
Anyway, the Union should have won this game. They out-shot Miami 18-6 and had 3.5 xG on the night. They’re a striker away from being back to what they were these last couple of seasons. Maybe Julian Carranza comes home at some point to lead the boys to the promised land.
For now, they will have to settle for their winning streak coming to an end. They are still unbeaten since the World Cup break, but now have 4 wins and a draw. They are four points off the playoff line with 14 games to play.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com