The row climaxed before the home game against Hamburg on December 3, 1994. Yeboah, Jay-Jay Okocha and Maurizio Gaudino had been ordered to a punishment session, a 30-minute run in the woods, and then abruptly withdrew. Yeboah told the coach he would not appear for the match. Okocha said he was mentally not in a state to play.\n\nGaudino claimed to be physically exhausted.
Eintracht reacted. Yeboah and Gaudino were kicked out, Okocha was pardoned for the second half of the season.\n\nBy throwing out their goal insurance and one of their key creators, the club sawed off the branch it was sitting on.