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Yellow card relinguished so ref could only give red
Yellow card relinguished by Argentine referee Carlos Maglio. He gave it to the fourth official so everyone could see it. Maglio already booked eight players at that moment in a friendly between Argentine rivals Estudiantes and Gimnasia. The players were not getting the message, so he wanted to make something clear to them. And indeed, the first card Maglio gave to a player was a red card. “Retiring the yellow was a spur of the moment decision. I had already booked eight players and I didn’t want them to keep on hitting each other,” Maglio told La Red radio. “The fourth official asked me to give it to him so…
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Swearing does not usually lead to red card from ref
“Referees would have issued a red card for sexually inclined words or phrases rather than for terms insulting one’s appearance.” That’s the conclusion of a study by researchers at the University of Vienna. The Austrian scientists also found that referees regularly ignore the use of swear words by players on the pitch. Their research shows that only 55.7 percent the participants will give a red card in response to a verbal offence. (Will add table with stats about ‘yellow’, ‘admonition’ or ‘no reaction’ next days. Tell me if you’re interested.) Referees from Vienna referee organisations were placed in front of the computer and got the question what they’d decided if…
