send off a player

The position, however, was used as an alternative to sending off a player.

Throughout his career, he never sent off a player.

Yellow and red cards still qualified to send off a player for the remaining of the game.

For example, we have all heard that a referee has ruined a game by sending off a player too early for a borderline challenge that he could have punished with a yellow card.

In his nine years in the middle in the Football League he never sent off a player in that competition or the two main Cups, a remarkable record even for those more lenient times.

Codesal also became the first referee to send off a player in a final match of a Football World Cup, by showing the red card to Argentines Monzón and Dezotti.

In one game last October, Hoyzer awarded a penalty to one team, LR Ahlen, and sent off a player from the opposing team, SV Wacker Burghausen.

At the domestic level McGinlay has refereed 21 Old Firm derbies, during which he never sent off a player, but he considers his most nerve-racking match to be the Rangers-Aberdeen title decider match at the climax of the 1990-91 season.

Shortly before half-time a number of players clashed beneath the Hogan Stand and to the crowds amazement John Gough decided to send off a player from each side, Ray Hazley from Dublin and Tomás Tierney of Galway.