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Louis van Gaal compares player’s hair pulling to ‘sexual masochism’

Louis van Gaal said that Leicester City’s Robert Huth should only be pulling hair as part of “sexual masochism.”
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Louis van Gaal was unhappy with the referee’s handling of an incident during Sunday’s match between Manchester United and Leicester City in which United’s Marouane Fellaini elbowed Robert Huth after the Leicester defender pulled his hair.

Van Gaal used some of his signature colorful language, and a pull of a reporter’s hair to show why Huth, and not Fellani was in the wrong.

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