--- title: Angry Soccer Fan Throws Cabbage at Manager description: A fed-up soccer fan hurled a cabbage at Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce following a string of losses for the professional football club. canonical: https://time.com/5413815/soccer-fan-throws-cabbage/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-03T14:56:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:13.853Z og:title: Soccer Fan Throws Cabbage at Manager to Express Displeasure og:description: "There’s no respect for anyone" og:url: https://time.com/5413815/soccer-fan-throws-cabbage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f006f500253c269/69893bb1096a94dfd66a3988/cabbage.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Cabbages og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Soccer Fan Throws Cabbage at Manager to Express Displeasure twitter:description: "There’s no respect for anyone" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f006f500253c269/69893bb1096a94dfd66a3988/cabbage.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fed Up Soccer Fan Throws Cabbage at Manager Who Finds the 'Whole Thing Hugely Disrespectful'  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 3, 2018 2:56 PM CUT  Close-up of cabbages Close-up of cabbagesCreativ Studio Heinemann/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 3, 2018 2:56 PM CUT Following a string of losses for [professional football club](http://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/ "undefined") Aston Villa, one [fed-up fan](http://time.com/3912684/beyonce-vegan-fans-angry/ "undefined") kicked off the team’s Tuesday match by hurling a [cabbage](http://time.com/4217330/vegetable-guide/ "undefined") at manager Steve Bruce. Ahead of Villa’s game against Preston North End—which ended in a disappointing 3-3 draw—one fan launched a whole green cabbage at Bruce to express his displeasure with the club’s recent performance in England’s second-tier Championship league. Villa has won just one of its last 10 games and is ranked 12th in the 24-team league. “Unfortunately, it sums up the society we are in at the moment. There’s no respect for anyone,” Bruce said in a post-game interview, according to [FOX Sports](https://www.foxsports.com/soccer/story/fan-throws-cabbage-at-under-fire-aston-villa-manager-100218 "undefined"). “Certainly for someone like him, I’m surprised he knew what a cabbage was. I find the whole thing hugely disrespectful.” > [](https://twitter.com/FOXFOOTBALL/status/1047265802984947713) > [](https://twitter.com/FOXFOOTBALL/status/1047265802984947713) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5413815/soccer-fan-throws-cabbage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5413815/soccer-fan-throws-cabbage/"},"headline":"Fed Up Soccer Fan Throws Cabbage at Manager Who Finds the 'Whole Thing Hugely Disrespectful'","datePublished":"2018-10-03T14:56:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:13.853Z","description":"\"There’s no respect for anyone\"","url":"https://time.com/5413815/soccer-fan-throws-cabbage/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Soccer","Sports"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f006f500253c269/69893bb1096a94dfd66a3988/cabbage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f006f500253c269/69893bb1096a94dfd66a3988/cabbage.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cabbages","caption":"Cabbages","creditText":"Creativ Studio Heinemann/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5413815/soccer-fan-throws-cabbage/","name":"Fed Up Soccer Fan Throws Cabbage at Manager Who Finds the 'Whole Thing Hugely Disrespectful'"}}]}] ```