What do you do when footy rips your heart out with a call that is blatantly wrong? You bake … and you bake angry.
And that’s exactly what an Adelaide baker is doing in the wake of the controversial clash between Adelaide and Sydney that ended in farcical scenes following a horrendous error from a goal umpire.
The AFL has since confirmed the goal umpire made a meal of it by not asking for a review of the Ben Keays’ shot on goal (that would have handed Adelaide the lead with just over a minute to go), and officials have since stood the goal umpire down for the rest of the season.
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But that is cold comfort for Crows fans whose team was wiped out of the finals race because of the season-defining mistake.
If the goal umpire called for a review, there is little doubt his decision would have been overruled and Adelaide – who lost the game by a point – would have probably won the game and be a live chance of making the finals heading into this weekend.
But that’s not going to happen, and Brighton Jetty Bakery has taken matters into it’s own hands with some sweet revenge.
The bakery has created the Thief’s Bun, with white fondant down the middle to represent the goal post and a small fondant football attached to the side of the finger bun.
And 7NEWS reporter Nathan Regter said he was at the bakery trying to get his hands “on what everyone in Adelaide is talking about at the moment, the Thief’s Bun”.
“The bakers are hard at work at the moment trying to pump out as many as they can,” Regter said.
“It is pretty much a finger bun with a footy fondant stuck to the side of it.
“This is how Adelaide deals with controversy. We are eating our feelings away after the Crows were denied what should have been their matchwinning goal on Saturday night’s game.
“The guys here say the fondant is nowhere near touching the bun. Sound a bit contentious to me. We might actually have to use the review system here a bit later on.
“But guys, the buns are in the oven and I’m hungry, I can’t wait to get one on. Hopefully have one very soon.”
The Sunrise panel team were in fits of laughter following Regter’s report from the bakery
Sunrise news reader Edwina Bartholomew ask Regter how much the bun cost.
“More expensive for Swans fans?” she inquired
“They cost a whole season, really,” Regter replied to fits of laughter.
Meanwhile, Crows captain Jordan Dawson is appealing for Adelaide’s angry fans to forgive the goal umpire.
“It’s a very crucial time of the year, and a game and a moment, for us,” Dawson told reporters.
“We want to show our disappointment.
“But we also don’t want that umpire to feel like he has cost us the year.
“Because we know there have been plenty of games where we probably should have won and have been in these positions that we have lost and cost ourselves through our own error.
“There’s nothing that can be done. I watched it a couple of times but there’s no point continually watching it and getting frustrated by it.”
The defeat ruined any chance of the Crows breaking a finals drought stretching back to 2018.
“That is what the technology has been brought in for, to use in cases and scenarios like that where the decision, the umpire is not sure,” Dawson said.
“He obviously thought it was a point and he stuck with the decision … But it’s just one of those things.”
– With AAP
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