Spanish Ref issues 19 red cards

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...-red-cards.html

 

"Recreativo Linense were beating Saladillo Algesiras 1-0 in the regional first division of the southern province of Cadiz before referee Jose Manuel Barro Escandon stopped the match.

 

Escandon had already issued one red card before a fight broke out between two players which escalated into a brawl involving several players from both teams and spectators who invaded the pitch.

 

The referee stopped the match before fleeing to the safety of the changing rooms.

 

In his post-match report, he stated that he had sent off 19 players.

 

Linense coach Sebastian Naranjo said the red cards were unjustifed: "After the altercation between Francis and Aguilar, there were no clashes.

 

"The players who intervened, and even the spectators, were just trying to see that things didn't get worse. I don't know what got into the guy [the referee]." "

 

 

Wtf?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/...de-algecirasr-d

 

Includes some interesting references back to "that" Portugal-Netherlands game. At the time I remember wishing the referee had sent the whole lot of them off, just for the (long overdue) discussion it would have provoked.