Acts of God, foul weather and even stadium closures are often responsible for teams having to play their home games in a rival stadium but for Gilortul Targu Carbunesti it was an insurmountable problem with local politics that forced them to seek an alternative venue for their Romanian league match.
According to reports in the Romanian press, the mayor of Targu Carbunesti in southern Romania (population 8,731) decided the home stadium was the only appropriate venue for his daughter’s wedding, meaning the local team’s tier four fixture had to be rescheduled for the village of Stoina, 24 miles away.
The Romanian newspaper Libertatea reported that being such a small town, Targu Carbunesti was short of suitable restaurants to accommodate the mayor’s 1,000 guests.
The only obvious alternative was to lay down a red carpet in the football ground, erect a marquee and fill it with tables and chandeliers, forcing the football team to find an alternative patch of uncluttered turf.
