Well, that didn’t take long. Chris Foy dished out the first red card of the Premier League season right at the thirty minute mark of the West Ham v. Tottenham match, when he sent off Kyle Naughton for a handball in the box. The call itself was pretty straightforward: Naughton was swinging his arms above his head, seemed to make
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It was a rough day for the American, but a typically smooth one by the Brazilian, Sandro Ricci (above). Mark Geiger, USA: France v. Nigeria Geiger is the first referee from the US to referee at this stage in the World Cup, which is really impressive. However, the American media’s breathless prognostications about how he’d be in the final were
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First of all, being in their group, I can tell you that Ecuador played a lot better than their record indicates. They were a definite threat throughout the group stages. Unfortunately, late in their game against France, Antonio Valencia was sent off for a studs up challenge on Lucas Digne. You can see it on Fansided (which is where the below images
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This is version of Red Card or Not is a pretty easy one. Claudio Marchisio had control (having just evaded one challenge) when he went right over the ball and dragged his studs down the defender’s leg. Mexican referee Marco Rodriguez was practically right on top of it, and drew the red card immediately. Not much doubt here. You can also see
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Ramires is a dirty player. I get that. He’s got a temper on him, as well. (See: Mark Clattenburg.) I sort of get that, too. But you can not hit a player in the face. Not even Sebastian Larsson, whom I realize is kind of a c—. You just can’t. There’s no reason in the world you can give me to excuse why
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It’s not often that we get to hear what the referees say to the players before a match. So, I was pretty fascinated to hear Wolfgang Stark’s speech to the Porto and Sevilla captains while watching Fox’s live stream. First of all, Wolfgang Stark has been there, done that, has the t-shirt. He is not there to babysit. Here’s exactly what he
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Tottenham have been successful in their appeal of Younes Kaboul’s three-game suspension following his red card in Saturday’s 4-0 defeat at Chelsea. Referee Michael Oliver had adjudged Kaboul to have tripped Samuel Eto’o in the box, denying him a goalscoring opportunity. However, replays showed that not only was there very little contact, but Eto’o was not in control of the
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There were two huge red card decisions in this past week’s Champions League first leg ties. Each of the cards had massive impact not only on the matches, but on the overall ties. In both cases, English teams were facing formidable opponents (Barcelona and Bayern Munich, respectively) and found themselves giving up vital away goals after losing a man. So,
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