2024-01-06 17:17:41
06/01/2024 12:17hs.
What happened during the match between Brentford and Wolverhampton for the third round of the FA Cup was truly unusual: A player kicked hard and the referee had to send him off, giving him a round red card.
Eight minutes into the first half, Joao Gomes arrived late in the dispute for a ball and stepped on the opponent’s ankle, leaving referee Tony Harrington with no alternative, who had no choice but to send him off. Until then, everything is quite normal. But the curious thing would come seconds later, when Harrington took out a circular card that surprised everyone and everyone. From that moment on, the discussion of expulsion took a backseat.
As the duel ended in a 1-1 draw, the teams will have to go to the famous “replay”, that is, a tiebreaker match. From this, the networks exploded. ““A red card is a red card, no matter what form it takes.”“I’m going to have to start giving referees round pockets”, “they will soon have one in braille” and “that looks very strange” were some of the most notable comments.
It’s not the first time…
A referee showed a round red card. (@Offsider_ES)
Despite the exceptional, The reality is that this type of red card has already been seen a year agoin January 2023, during a confrontation between Wrexham and Sheffield United in the FA Cup, when Dean Whitestone sent off Daniel Jebbison, also causing a wave of surprise among the fans.
On the other hand, Uriah Rennie, the first black referee to referee a Premier match in 1997, also used them.. In fact, there is a famous image where he shows this particular piece of cardboard to Roy Keane, Manchester United’s historic midfielder.
The background of the circular red card
A referee showed a round red card. (Getty Images)
According to SportBible, these round red cards They were introduced into soccer to help soccer players who have trouble differentiating colors.. In this way, even if the player suffers from some visual problem, he understands perfectly that the rectangular card is the yellow one and the round one is the red one.
Likewise, another explanation maintains that it helps to avoid confusion among the referees themselves. As they are different to the touch, some referees prefer to carry a round red card so that it is easier to differentiate it from the yellow one when taking it out of their pocket. “One time he wanted to give someone a yellow card, but he got a red card by mistake, so he changed his red card to a circle so he wouldn’t make the same mistake again,” said a Reddit user when speaking to a rugby referee.
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