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- verb sports To show a player a
red card , and dimiss them from the playing area.send off
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Examples
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Mancini was entitled to feel that the referee, Martin Atkinson, should have ruled that Maynor Figueroa's handball had denied Sergio Agüero a clear run at goal and was a red-card offence.
Wigan Athletic 0-1 Manchester City | Premier League match report 2012
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Only 14 out of 50 red-card appeals were successful last year and Mancini's anger was clear after the match when he accused Rooney of deliberately influencing the referee by running to him and demanding a red card.
Players descend to Twitter spat over Vincent Kompany red card 2012
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The worst thing with Milan was not the tackle by Flamini; it was not the multiple red-card offences by Gattuso; it was not that they were piss poor.
Champions League: Five things we learned from Milan 0-1 Tottenham | Stuart James 2011
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"The important thing for these games is to have no regrets," said Stockley, their captain, who will watch from the sidelines due to a red-card suspension.
Scrappy City Team to Face Red Bulls Joshua Robinson 2011
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The red-card offences of "serious foul play" and "violent conduct" no longer quite cover challenges in which recklessness creates a threat to another player's limbs.
Football has a duty to disarm its human missiles Richard Williams 2010
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The Lower Saxons 'clever rearguard action after the early red-card for the self-styled "mad dog" Emanuel Pogatetz after 36 minutes was somewhat overshadowed by Bayer's inability to turn plenty of possession into many decent opportunities, however.
Hoffenheim and Mainz surge on as records and Michael Ballack tumble 2010
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Last week's red-card furore in the Champions League game at Ajax summed up his season.
José Mourinho prepares to lead Real Madrid into the Barcelona bear pit Sid Lowe 2010
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"Having seen it again from my armchair, I would red-card him," the 39-year-old Yorkshire official said.
I should have shown Nigel de Jong a red card, says Howard Webb 2010
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Laurent Koscielny, who was the victim of Cole's red-card lunge, was sent off himself in second-half injury time after being shown a second yellow card for handling.
Pepe Reina Own-Goal VIDEO: Liverpool Blows Victory With 90th-Minute Blunder 2010
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How on Earth does a referee miss THAT many red-card offences, and take no action?
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