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Disciplinary Actions
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Articles tagged “Disciplinary Actions”
Hair pulling and red cards: consistency or overreach?
By Martin Graham For yet another time this season, a Premier League manager reacted angrily to a dismissal for pulling an opponent’s hair. This time it was Manchester United boss Michael Carrick, who labelled Lisandro Martinez’s red card against Leeds United as a “shocking decision.” Earlier in the campaign, Everton manager David Moyes had […]
Lisandro Martinez, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and why hair-pulling is a red-card offence
What are the rules on hair-pulling? Has it happened before? How do other competitions punish it? What will happen in the World Cup?