this reminds me of a decent football question .... let google be your friend (if you're a cheatist) who got a red card in a EFL football match and ten minutes later got a yellow but finished the game still on the pitch ? cough cough ...I'm quite miffed that nobody has attempted this question what I wrote earlier in this very thread as I believe it deserves more scrutiny, or at least say 'I give up' or 'I know' or even 'I was there' or something ...I'll wait
I don't know the answer Cat. Obviously as it was an EFL game, VAR is not in the mix. Was it a case of incorrect identification with the real culprit for the red card owning up and the player wrongly redded subsequently getting a yellow. I'm not sure if I have vague memories of such an incident or whether it's because you planted the idea with your post. So to recap, I don't know but am adding some gobbledegook.
you spotted my clue Clingo so you are on the mark somewhat and it wasn't a mix up ..it was all perfectly legal
In that case I must give up as I don't have the capacity to think of something else. I hope others have a go as it's a great question, though I doubt you'll get much response this afternoon as they'll be at or following some insignificant football match.
I agree that treatment of 'keepers in yesteryear was robust, but feel the pendulum has swung too far the other way. A striker jumps and looks sideways at a keeper and it's a free kick. A keeper charges out and demolishes a striker and its a free kick..... .......to the keeper. Keepers today are massively over protected.
No need for special treatment there. I'm no Burnley fan and I agree keepers are a bit precious but he was obviously blocked off, taken out and given no chance of getting the ball. Free kicks, pens and cards are given for much less. Cut and dried free kick as far as I'm concerned.
Sorry Andy but had a few too many this afternoon and fell asleep for a bit ... I don't know who the ref' was in this game but like I told Clingo there is a high probability that you were there on the day
I (almost) agree with this statement but I'm not completely buying it, I am though starting to think that you played up front back in the day
I'm posting the answer to the question even though it didn't generate as wide a response as the question itself deserves, then again it is saturday and wwe did have distractions
"In light of Edgar Davids's red card at the weekend, has a player-coach/player-manager ever been sent off while playing, then while serving a playing ban but still on the bench been sent to the stands?" asks Ian Burnett. As Gillingham fan Matt Davison points out, Andy Hessenthaler twice did something very similar during his player-manager stint at the Priestfield. The first incident occurred when Hessenthaler's Gills side travelled to Ninian Park to face Cardiff in September 2003. The player-manager named himself among the substitutes for the visitors in south Wales and watched on as his side fell 3-0 behind to the Bluebirds inside 35 minutes. The third goal, scored by Robert Earnshaw after Gillingham's players mistakenly stopped playing believing the referee had awarded a free-kick, slightly annoyed the visiting manager. "The goal stood so I went mental," he told the S*n. "I had a go at the fourth official and when he called the ref to the dug-out, I was off. I asked: 'What about me coming on as a player?' and the fourth official said there was nothing in the rules to stop it. So I trotted down the tunnel – but then our kit man drags me from the dressing-room. "We were 3-0 down and my first-team coach Wayne Jones – who was now in charge of the side – wanted me on straight away as sub. I was all kitted up so I trotted back out, my number was held up and I was on the pitch. Even Cardiff manager Lennie Lawrence was laughing because he couldn't believe what was happening." With 10 minutes to go Hessenthaler was booked, but he survived the final few minutes on the pitch to avoid going into the record books as the first player-manager to be sent off twice.
just to finish off the story ........ A year later he was in a similar mess. In the Gills final home game of the 2003-04 season Hessenthaler was shown a red card (as a player) for a challenge on a Coventry player. After the game – a 5-2 defeat for the Gills – the cool, calm and collected Hessy, in his managerial capacity, had a quiet word with the referee and wound up with a three-match touchline ban. So for the first game of the 2004-05 season against Ipswich at Portman Road Hessenthaler sat out a one-match playing ban and began a three-match touchline ban. The visit of Leeds to the Priestfield in the following game, though, presented a problem. "So I have been told that even if I'm a sub I have to sit in the stands and if I want to bring myself on I cannot warm up on the touchline," said Hessenthaler. "Instead I've got to warm up behind one of the goals, probably the one where there will be 1,100 Leeds fans. And I'm not allowed to walk around the touchline to get to behind the goal, so I've got to spend the day of the game plotting my route. I'll have to go through the supporters somehow; maybe I'll dress up as the mascot.'' Twenty minutes in he received a big cheer as he made his way through fans to warm up behind the goal and a few minutes later he was on the pitch as a replacement for the injured Nyron Nosworthy.
