The best ever red card

Cantona at Palace was the most enjoyable!

I watched something the other day which made me laugh, there was an old footballer comparing the modern to the old game in which he played in.

In which he mentioned that in the old days there was hardly any red cards, but said that when footballers did get a red card, and felt it was harsh they would go back and make sure that the red card was justified, by giving them a little boot up the arse !

Made me laugh for some reason .

thems the rules - even my 9 yr old son knows that if you take your shirt off its a yellow card !!

McBobbin said:

I quite liked Steve Brown's one when he got stretchered off to a hail of catalogues. Not least because he knew it was a balantant red and faked the injury

Was there ever a video clip of it? I vaguely recall seeing one a few years ago.

The Watford bloke this year was good. Kicking the ball away and diving. The dream double.

Shearer at the Valley
I can't remember what it was for but I do remember his indignation at being sent off, OK it did get rescinded but he still got sent off.

fossdeneboy said:

Do any old uns out there remember Willy Duffs right hook on Evertons Dave Hickson in a FA cup game at the Valley in. the late fifties he laid him out in the back of the net no handbag scuffles in those days.

yes that was brilliant, he then took of his green jersey, threw it in the goal and walked off before the ref could react - well that's how I like to remember it.

Peter Beagrie .. CAFC v Bradford 1998 .. John Robinson had done or said something to annoy our Peter. So Beagrie danced up to Robinson - Imagine a solo floral dance- and slapped him hard in the face ... quite bizarre .. Beagrie took the walk of shame. He didn't dance from the field. (Soon after that we signed Youds from Bradford. I do not think that there is any connection between these two events.) Chris Kamara was the Bradford manager at the time. As Beagrie left the field, Kamara merely shook his head in puzzlemenet at his player's strange behaviour

Todd had some 'issues', didn't he.

CharltonKerry said:

lancashire lad said:

Shearer at the Valley
I can't remember what it was for but I do remember his indignation at being sent off, OK it did get rescinded but he still got sent off.

Shearer quiet rightly was sent off for a deliberate elbow in Fortunes(?) face, clearly seen by the linesman who instigated the sending off and the majority of the west stand. Why it was rescinded I have no idea, other than it was Shearer who was England's captain, but I am sure that didn't come into it. It was rumoured (you can't beat a good rumour) that the linesman was not contacted during the appeals process.

The fact Shearer was doing the FA Trophy draw live on the radio on the Monday was entirely coincidental of course.

aliwibble said:

CharltonKerry said:

lancashire lad said:

Shearer at the Valley
I can't remember what it was for but I do remember his indignation at being sent off, OK it did get rescinded but he still got sent off.

Shearer quiet rightly was sent off for a deliberate elbow in Fortunes(?) face, clearly seen by the linesman who instigated the sending off and the majority of the west stand. Why it was rescinded I have no idea, other than it was Shearer who was England's captain, but I am sure that didn't come into it. It was rumoured (you can't beat a good rumour) that the linesman was not contacted during the appeals process.

The fact Shearer was doing the FA Trophy draw live on the radio on the Monday was entirely coincidental of course.

My favorite was the Shearer/Fortune one. That must've been one of Fortune's greatest games - he gave Shearer hell.