There have already been numerous derbies between Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Rot-Weiss Essen. After one in August 2012, Marvin Ellmann clashed with Mario Basler and Mike Terranova. Do you still know?

It was August 3, 2012, derby time in Oberhausen. Over 13,000 spectators came to the Niederrhein stadium to watch the clash between Rot-Weiss Oberhausen and Rot-Weiss Essen early in the season. It went really well. Six goals, an away win and an emotional outburst that was the talk of the town for a few days.

Kevin Grund put RWE ahead, Ralf Schneider equalized for RWO before the current RWE sports director Jörn Nowak put the Oberhausen side in front. A brace from Benedikt Koep tipped the game in Essen’s favor. Marvin Ellmann, who prepared the 3:2, then scored the final goal to make it 4:2 for RWE.

And after that, things went crazy on the pitch. Ellmann, who had previously moved from Oberhausen to Essen, was cheering too close to the RWO bench, which the then Cloverleaf coach Mario Basler could not stand. A pack formed and Ellmann had to be protected from angry RWO players.

The verbal abuse continued after the game. Basler grumbled towards Ellmann: “Marvin is a child with no character and will always remain so. You don’t do that as a sportsman.”

Here are the statements from back then in the Forecasting YouTube video

And Mike Terranova, then a striker at RWO, now working in youth development, also had a tie. He ranted: “We pulled him through for years. He can be glad that there were eight Essen players in front of him after the goal, otherwise I would have pulled his ears out. I probably would have ripped his ear off too.”

Ellmann himself tried to smooth things over afterwards by emphasizing: “I’ve had a wonderful two and a half years here. But emotions run high when people call me a mercenary. I think that’s outrageous. I played here for little money and always gave my all, whether in the second or first team. I’m not aware of any guilt and I haven’t said anything to Basler.”

Fine for Marvin Ellmann

Shortly afterwards, tempers had calmed down again, Essen’s then coach Waldemar Wrobel announced a fine for the team’s coffers and RWE president Michael Welling said: “That wasn’t right, we’ll address that too, but you can’t completely put the boy in a corner because of it.”

For outsiders, the conclusion remained: This was a derby with fire in it. White still?