Who was that writing on my behalf yesterday about Academy Awards and footballers? It was so serious. But hold on. Academy Awards and footballers. That sounds about right. Except in football they aren't called awards. They are called yellow or red cards for the opposing player who has done nothing wrong, but is now standing over a player rolling around in apparent agony. Yes, I know it's been talked about a lot. But it never goes away. My hope is that by June 2018 referees are allowed video replays and let's see how many players still try this.
In the meantime, let me take you back to probably the best performance to get a player sent off at a World Cup. And the linesman was standing right there! I'm not sure if they were still called linesmen in 2002, or whether they had moved on the grander role of Assistant Referee. Whatever his title, he might as well have been having a chat with the spectators behind him when that nasty Turkish player kicked the ball at Rivaldo's legs in such a way that it caused incredible, albeit very short lived, trauma to his face.
(It’s late on a Saturday night, not the time to get into Russian policies vis-a-vis Ukraine)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OiW0IPrv1Ro
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