Dinamo continued their pursuit of the championship title with Saturday's Maksimir match against Titograd's Budućnost in the season from the infamous "Tomić case". In Belgrade on Friday, the day before this encounter, one of the biggest farces in the history of our football was staged.

The FSJ Executive Board had previously requested a professional opinion from its Rules Commission, which concluded on 13 April 1979 that the result of the first round match between Rijeka and Dinamo at Kantrida must be registered as a 3-0 walkover victory for the Blues, stating this was the only correct decision. What followed was a paradox: the FSJ Executive Board rejected the opinion of its own (!) Rules Commission for the first time in history (!), an opinion it had requested itself. On Friday, 20 April, the Executive Board decided to register the match as a 2-1 victory for Rijeka, contrary to all rules, thereby negating the legal position and directly placing Hajduk in first place.

The Maksimir club had properly warned their hosts before the Rijeka match in the first round that their player Edmond Tomić had no right to play due to accumulated yellow cards. Rijeka ignored the warning, then won 2-1 with Tomić assisting the second goal. After Dinamo's complaint, the match was registered as a 3-0 walkover victory for the Blues, and this result was included in the table through the 19th round when the Blues had a two-point advantage over second-placed Hajduk. But then, in mid-March, the Federation annulled the result from the first round and registered it as a 2-1 victory for Rijeka. With this, the FSJ directly altered the table, erased two points from Dinamo, and put Hajduk at the top.

The Federation's Executive Board had thus "scratched" the opinion of its own Rules Commission the day before Dinamo's match against Budućnost. In such circumstances, the Split team was first with the same number of points as Dinamo, but with a better goal difference. Dinamo then appealed to the Associated Labour Court, which had jurisdiction over the football organization. According to the court ruling, Dinamo is the champion for 1979, but this decision has not been implemented in the FSJ archives to this day.

On the day of the Dinamo-Budućnost match, the Executive Board of the Maksimir club also convened, concluding that "such flagrant violation of regulations must not be allowed".

Dinamo celebrated against Budućnost with a 3-0 victory thanks to a hat-trick scored by Zlatko Cico Kranjčar. The Blues took the lead in the 27th minute when Vilson Džoni crossed from the right to Rajko Janjanin, who headed it on to Petar Bručić, who didn't handle the ball well. Kranjčar threw himself at the ball at the edge of the penalty area with an effective dive and headed it into the corner.

The second goal came in the 71st minute when Drago Vabec's dribbling unsettled his marker Žarko Vukčević, who stopped him with a foul, and Kranjčar then scored from the penalty spot.

The story concluded in the 82nd minute when Džoni crossed again, the ball deflected off Džemal Mustedanagić, and Kranjčar calmly scored for 3-0 in front of an empty goal.

Interestingly, the inspired Kranjčar found the net in six consecutive matches, starting in the previous round with the 2-1 victory against Red Star in Belgrade, then adding the hat-trick against Budućnost and continuing to score in the next four matches in a row.

Two minutes after the goal for 3-0, visiting player Momir Bakrač and Dinamo's Mustedanagić were both sent off. Bakrač struck Džoni behind the referee's back, splitting his eyebrow and sending him to hospital for stitches. The assistant referee alerted the main referee and Bakrač was sent off, but Mustedanagić also received a red card for launching a "revenge mission" towards the visiting "number ten".