Speaker 1: Today, I am going to convince you of two things
Speaker 1: you absolutely do not want to believe. The first, referees
Speaker 1: are good. Actually, but when I look at referees and
Speaker 1: the track record they have of getting things right, I
Speaker 1: think it's just phenomenal that a human being can, for
Speaker 1: ninety minutes, get that many things right of interfering with play. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have off side, Thank you, Tidy. Hey, what are
Speaker 1: you doing by If it's your free kicks the bowl?
Speaker 1: If it's not your free kick, move away, Tom, It's
Speaker 1: an easy yaw. And your second new belief, starting approximately
Speaker 1: half an hour from now, is that red cards are
Speaker 1: more exciting than goals. It's a yellow card. Wait a minute,
Speaker 1: he's taking another card out for bacam. It's a red card.
Speaker 1: It's pushing and shoving and arguing. A yellow card to chatty,
Speaker 1: admit the mela. To convince you, let's look at the
Speaker 1: game with the most red cards in World Cup history.
Speaker 1: It got a thank you dot coast. It is at
Speaker 1: Lastia Portugal versus the Netherlands in the two thousand and
Speaker 1: six World Cup, sixteen yellows, four reds to Melee's uncounted
Speaker 1: crates of Champagne a Guinness World Record, a PhD in petagogy,
Speaker 1: an almighty bruhaha, and a partridge in a pear tree.
Speaker 1: I'm Nando Vila and this is the best soccer podcast
Speaker 1: in the worlds were then, but it's still live, Christiano Ronaldo.
Speaker 1: Yes oh yea four A m April four people of
Speaker 1: the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg in the Holy Roman
Speaker 1: Empire awoke to a space battle playing out across the dawn.
Speaker 1: Two blood red semicircle arcs lights glimmered and shot across
Speaker 1: the sky. UFOs danced in front of the sun space orbs.
Speaker 1: They fell to the earth in a cloud of smoke.
Speaker 1: A large black triangle appeared. Sights and wonders. Ten days later,
Speaker 1: Hans Glazer recorded it in a woodcutting. These were like
Speaker 1: early broadsheets. They often recounted astrological mystery ease which primitive
Speaker 1: humans could not grasp. The whole event was most likely
Speaker 1: a SunDog or a part helia, which are halos of
Speaker 1: sunlight caused by refraction in ice crystals in the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: especially when the sun is near the horizon. It became
Speaker 1: known as the Battle of Nuremberg. Nine pm June and
Speaker 1: six Franken Stadion, Nuremberg. The World Cup slogan that year
Speaker 1: was a time to make friends. The match that day
Speaker 1: set records for total cards and for the most red
Speaker 1: cards in World Cup history. I think it's fair to
Speaker 1: say no one made any new pals. It became known
Speaker 1: as the Battle of Nuremberg. Sorry, very unusual and very emotional,
Speaker 1: and it's Tory stood out. This is Michael Yoakin, freelance
Speaker 1: for the little right cho That's what I do for leaving.
Speaker 1: I'm just right about. The World Cup that year was
Speaker 1: in Germany, the Holy Roman Empire having long since dissolved.
Speaker 1: By two thousand and six. Hey remember two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: a little site called twitter dot com launched and rotted
Speaker 1: all our brains. Google bought YouTube, Disney bought Pixar. Pluto
Speaker 1: was demoted to a dwarf planet. Steve Irwin, the Crocodile
Speaker 1: Hunter was killed by a stingray. Dick Cheney shot a
Speaker 1: man in the face while quail hunting. You asked for
Speaker 1: a wee but got apples to apples on Christmas instead.
Speaker 1: Hannah Montana debut on the Disney Channel. George Cluney was
Speaker 1: correctly People's sexiest man alive. Shaquira's hips told the absolute
Speaker 1: truth while you listened on your Microsoft Zooon MP three player,
Speaker 1: Britney spears and kay Fed broke up, Saddam Hussein was hanged,
Speaker 1: and Italy won the World Cup. Disney den z Don
Speaker 1: closed his playing career by headbutting Marco Madazi in the
Speaker 1: chest and silently walking down the tunnel. And perhaps the
Speaker 1: most famous red card in soccer history, Marco Matarazi Ye,
Speaker 1: it's crushed Bisa Don. But that was two weeks later.
Speaker 1: We're still talking about the Round of sixteen here, which
Speaker 1: had other red cards, sloppy of red cards, sillier. But
Speaker 1: you know, as we know, it's not the size of
Speaker 1: the the dog in the fight. It's the fight in
Speaker 1: the dog. And there was a lot of fight in
Speaker 1: all the dogs as far as I can recall. In
Speaker 1: that game. It wasn't in football terms and edifying spectacle,
Speaker 1: but it was, my god, it was good to watch
Speaker 1: in many other ways because football is about passion, it's
Speaker 1: about rivalry, it's about drive and desire to win. And
Speaker 1: I think that every now and then this is probably
Speaker 1: why people want, you know, they love it. When they
Speaker 1: dropped the gloves in hockey and that every now and
Speaker 1: then it's nice when we see this is James Richardson,
Speaker 1: the host of the Totally Football Show. You know, football
Speaker 1: can be quite sanitized, sometimes can be quite professional. So
Speaker 1: when it's clear how much passion, how much how much
Speaker 1: humanity there is kind of smoldering away under those kind
Speaker 1: of polished pr exteriors, I for one, quite like that.
Speaker 1: I like a rule. A brawl is exactly what portugal
Speaker 1: defender for Anno made. I called it. This was the
Speaker 1: last chance for Portugal's Golden generation. A remarkable crop of
Speaker 1: incredible players came through the youth system at the same time.
Speaker 1: They won back to back Under twenty World Cups in
Speaker 1: but by now Luis Figo, their best player, was well
Speaker 1: into his mid thirties. Ruey Costa had retired already. Some
Speaker 1: new young talents had emerged, like this kid named Cristiano Ronaldo,
Speaker 1: then a one. He was a finicky talent, step over happy,
Speaker 1: but had something special. I wonder whatever happened to him,
Speaker 1: especially given the like's hair of twinkled toes. Ronaldo Portugal
Speaker 1: swatted aside the group stages, winning three in a row.
Speaker 1: Luis Figer Plezza it's newis Figo, It's Dicko Magniffson. Twenty
Speaker 1: one year old Cristiano Ronaldo waits for referee poolas whistle
Speaker 1: composes himself and scores. She now took the ball armed
Speaker 1: and almen On who was marking Maniche. Nobody are they dancing?
Speaker 1: Nice Figo penalty. As for the Netherlands, they invented total
Speaker 1: football in the seventies, of fluid system that went down
Speaker 1: smooth as orange crush. This was a different Netherlands. The
Speaker 1: coach was Michael van Baston, a legendary striker for a C.
Speaker 1: Milan and the Dutch national team, who won the Blunder
Speaker 1: three times. It's the cars the way to the black posts,
Speaker 1: always come for it. When he played for Milan, his
Speaker 1: coach was legendary Italian tactician Arrigo Saki. It took Saki
Speaker 1: many crates of Champagne to win over snobby Van Basten.
Speaker 1: Saki would better create the ten players of Van Baston's
Speaker 1: choice couldn't break down four well drilled defenders. If Saki
Speaker 1: had called in all his winnings, he'd still be drunk today.
Speaker 1: Von Boston, a legendary forward who liked to score goals
Speaker 1: absorbed the importance of an organized defense. He had yet
Speaker 1: to lose as Netherlands coach, going unbeaten in the group
Speaker 1: stages helps Alldix went to Roban, who's called the place
Speaker 1: here only the keeper to Bates. Robin opens the Doutcher
Speaker 1: cops Van Bessie, you don't score back to goals and
Speaker 1: I world up the art two three goalkeepers wouldn't have
Speaker 1: kept that one expat van mister Roy star Holland to golf.
Speaker 1: To give you an idea of what kind of coach
Speaker 1: Van Boston was against portrait goal he benched Rude van Nistelroy,
Speaker 1: the ruthless Manchester United striker who had signed for Real
Speaker 1: Madrid that summer. For Dirk Cout. Cout made up for
Speaker 1: a complete lack of imagination or flair with stamina and effort.
Speaker 1: He lived his life permanently panting with puffed red cheeks.
Speaker 1: The team was built around a curly haired midfielder named
Speaker 1: Mark Vambammel. A time to make friends, you say no
Speaker 1: thank you, Sir Van Baummel has never carved out time
Speaker 1: for that in his entire life. Two minutes into the game,
Speaker 1: Van Bommel set the tone. He hit Ronaldo hard with
Speaker 1: a late tackle along the touch line. Yellow card mark
Speaker 1: Peter Gertuda. Andreas van Bummel was coming off winning the
Speaker 1: La Liga and Champions League double with Barcelona in his
Speaker 1: only season there. He learned Spanish in a convent outside
Speaker 1: of Eindhoven. But this man was no saint. In its
Speaker 1: twenty one year career that spanned league titles in the Netherlands, Spain,
Speaker 1: Germany and Italy, Von Baummel picked up thirteen reds, including
Speaker 1: one in his final match. He was a dirty player.
Speaker 1: This was a dirty Dutch team and we're off to
Speaker 1: the races. Five minutes later, Khalid Boolooroo's stamped on Ronaldo's time.
Speaker 1: Christiano writhe on the floor and pointed to his leg
Speaker 1: so everyone could see where the auri was. Magic spray
Speaker 1: and lots of rubbing got him back on the field,
Speaker 1: but it was a clear red. Christiano Ronaldo was substituted
Speaker 1: after substaining a knee injury from multiple heavy tangles. He
Speaker 1: is fighting begnteers, let's help. His faith of world captain
Speaker 1: is not over. That was the game in which Khalid
Speaker 1: Bolo's was instructed to just injure Cristiano Ronaldo. It was
Speaker 1: his mission, and he succeeded in that mission. Medics taped
Speaker 1: up Ronaldo's tie a few minutes later. He was clearly
Speaker 1: in pain. He was very limited defriender, very physical, tactically
Speaker 1: very sound, but well, he couldn't really play football. He
Speaker 1: just could all renew its to tackling. His name was
Speaker 1: Khalid der Kannibali or Khalid the Cannibal. Once he told
Speaker 1: a friend he was sharpening his studs for the upcoming match, quote,
Speaker 1: I only want one thing to eat a striker. The
Speaker 1: nickname stuck. Boolooroo's preferred to call himself his mother's son.
Speaker 1: He grew up in a Moroccan family with eight siblings.
Speaker 1: At sixteen, his dad died and he became responsible for
Speaker 1: the family financially. In his early playing days, he drove
Speaker 1: a VW golf but couldn't afford the gas to keep
Speaker 1: it running. Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, who made
Speaker 1: a record on thirteenth appearance in this game, called Boolooroo's
Speaker 1: the type of teammate you want around on the long
Speaker 1: nights at training camps. What I'm trying to say is
Speaker 1: that he was a complete human being with needs and
Speaker 1: desires and terrors and sorrows, but we know him only
Speaker 1: as a butcher with a scar down his face, a
Speaker 1: knife between his teeth, an insatiable urge to Maime. Boolooroo's
Speaker 1: snuck in one more thigh kick and Ronaldo had to
Speaker 1: be subbed out sobbing as Seawards replaced him. A year
Speaker 1: and a half later, Ronaldo still had the scar. Once
Speaker 1: Van Basten asked Boolooroo's if the tactical instructions were clear,
Speaker 1: Boolooroo's nodded quote, no mouse gets through boss. There was
Speaker 1: no way Ronaldo was going to escape this one unscathed.
Speaker 1: They shouldn't do that, and they shouldn't just hunt Cristiano
Speaker 1: Ronaldo down until he's injured and substituted. In the first half,
Speaker 1: it was just I didn't like it. Portugal hit back,
Speaker 1: Moniche got a yellow card for coming through the back
Speaker 1: of Van Bommel, who clearly made the most of it.
Speaker 1: Then Moniche scored one nail. A proper match was threatening
Speaker 1: to break out, but fret not friend. That never happened.
Speaker 1: After half an hour, Costna committed to a long sliding
Speaker 1: lunge that really he was never going to get the ball.
Speaker 1: It looked like slow motion as he slid across the
Speaker 1: field and into the referees notebook. A few minutes before
Speaker 1: the half, Nuno vain to hit Ry and Robin in
Speaker 1: the chest with his studs in the box. The referee
Speaker 1: decided to whistle offside rather than deal with all of that.
Speaker 1: And then in first half stoppage time, Costna tried to
Speaker 1: head the ball, but it's about two ft from his
Speaker 1: bald scalp. His hand slaps it instead. He's on the
Speaker 1: halfway line. There's really no point, but it's his second yellow,
Speaker 1: so we have our first read. Portugal coach we Fiscotatti
Speaker 1: draped his hand over the dugout, looking back over his
Speaker 1: shoulder and shaking his head. This was Scotti's eleventh World
Speaker 1: Cup game. He'd won the previous ten, including the whole
Speaker 1: dang turn in two thousand and two with Brazil. His
Speaker 1: Portugal team was let's call it less refined. You expect
Speaker 1: Portugal to play that way if they loved to play
Speaker 1: dirty historically. Halftime, we're at six yellows and one red.
Speaker 1: In the second half, Cout had to break away, he
Speaker 1: flubbed and Filip Coku hit the post. But the actual
Speaker 1: business of trying to get the ball in the net
Speaker 1: was the b plot here. The real game was seeing
Speaker 1: who could collect the most cards. Minute fifty substitute Pity
Speaker 1: touched Van Baumo, who spun wildly to the ground and
Speaker 1: sold it yellow. Minute fifty nine, a late Giovanni von
Speaker 1: broncors tacle on Deco yellow. In the aftermath, Luis Figo
Speaker 1: headbutted Van Baumo behind the referees back. You can see
Speaker 1: the pause. Then Van Baumo puts his hand over his
Speaker 1: face and collapses to the ground. Yellow. After the game,
Speaker 1: Scolatti said, quote, Jesus Christ said he would turn the
Speaker 1: other cheek, but Figo is not Jesus Christ. There you
Speaker 1: have it. Minute sixty three, Boolooroo's got back at not
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ by elbowing Figo on his big honking nose.
Speaker 1: Second yellow red. Both benches cleared for the melee, which
Speaker 1: is always fun. Andre Oyer had to be held back.
Speaker 1: Minute sixty seven, Johnny Hitinga comes on for von Baumbo. Somehow,
Speaker 1: against all the odds, von Baumo survived this game without
Speaker 1: getting sent off. He finished his international career with seventy
Speaker 1: nine appearances, ten goals, tennis sists, thirteen yellows, and because
Speaker 1: there is no justice in this dark and cruel world,
Speaker 1: zero red cards. Minute seventy three, the Netherlands break an
Speaker 1: unwritten rule by refusing to give the ball back. Portugal
Speaker 1: had had to put it out a bounce so a
Speaker 1: player could receive medical treatment. Deako comes streaming in foot
Speaker 1: at knee height and smacks Johnny Hitinga's trailing foot. He
Speaker 1: ting A sores through the air in a gorgeous ark.
Speaker 1: Yellow Petite was leaning over hy Tinga, who was crumped
Speaker 1: on the floor, to scream at him for not giving
Speaker 1: the ball back, so Wesley Schneider bundled him over. Yellow
Speaker 1: Raphael Vandervart got booked in the aftermath as players crowded around.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what exactly for one match report
Speaker 1: called it, apparently for descent yellow. Minutes seventy six, Portuguese
Speaker 1: goalkeeper Gottao got booked for well, let's just say the
Speaker 1: ref was trigger happy at this point. Match report quote
Speaker 1: presumably for time wasting. That same minute, valent is stuck
Speaker 1: in a nice slack on the back of Van Percy's ankles.
Speaker 1: Minute seventy eight that Goes scooped up the ball and
Speaker 1: refused to give it back for the Netherlands to take
Speaker 1: their free kick. Cuckoo spun him around to the ground.
Speaker 1: That goes second yellow red. For some reason, Goku wasn't booked.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm unclear why Scotti is gesturing and screaming
Speaker 1: at the ref. Von Boston looks like his brain has
Speaker 1: shorted out. He's just standing still, eyes darting around while
Speaker 1: he keeps rubbing his nose with two fingers. Minute Van
Speaker 1: Bronkhorst is trying to start a counter attack when Manita
Speaker 1: scoops the ball away. Von Bonkhorse then clatters into him,
Speaker 1: second yellow red. Von Boston is still holding his face,
Speaker 1: just staring and not moving. He said there was no
Speaker 1: soccer played in the second half. When Von Boston went
Speaker 1: to shakes scare at his hand, the Brazilian was too
Speaker 1: busy dancing and waving the Portuguese flag in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. The lasting image of this game is
Speaker 1: of the ejected Van Bronkhors and Deco sitting on the
Speaker 1: steps next to each other, gesturing and bitching about the referee. Together,
Speaker 1: Barcelona teammates international rivals united in their hatred of the referee.
Speaker 1: It's what binds us all together, really, common enemies. Many
Speaker 1: across the globe picked the same villain. The l A
Speaker 1: Times called the refereeing atrocious, pitiful. It called the two
Speaker 1: thousand and six World Cup irrevocably tainted. Van Vasten said
Speaker 1: quote the referee made a mess of it. He called
Speaker 1: the game chaos. After the final whistle, Marcel and the
Speaker 1: teammates Diko and Van Bronk post was vaunted Ravelina did
Speaker 1: next to each other on the sidelines, wondering wont had
Speaker 1: Jude happens. FIFA president step Bladder said the ref wasn't
Speaker 1: at the same level as the players and suggested he
Speaker 1: should give himself a yellow card. Van Instilroy said the
Speaker 1: referee was permanently holding up a card and seemed determined
Speaker 1: to book everybody. The New York Times called him petty.
Speaker 1: Ronaldo said the referee shouldn't get any more games in
Speaker 1: the World Cup, and well he didn't, So who was
Speaker 1: this referee that everyone hated? Valentine Ivanov was a forty
Speaker 1: four year old music teacher from Moscow. His parents had
Speaker 1: met as teenagers at the nineteen fifty six Olympics, where
Speaker 1: they each won gold. His father, Valentine cosmics Ivanov, went
Speaker 1: out to finish as a joint top score of the
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty two World Cup and won the eurosy He
Speaker 1: later coached Torpedo Moscow to a league title. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: a real team name son Valentine Valentinovich Ivanov was also
Speaker 1: a striker for Torpedo Moscow and reached the final of
Speaker 1: the Soviet Cup. Then Junior went into refereeing. This was
Speaker 1: his last World Cup before aging out at forty five.
Speaker 1: He said this game, the Battle of Nuremberg, was the
Speaker 1: toughest of his career in terms of rudeness. Actually, Ivanov
Speaker 1: was criticized for his performance, but I thought that he
Speaker 1: was handed an absolutely impossible tasking that game at he
Speaker 1: and he actually had a good game. All the players
Speaker 1: who were sent off dissolved to be set. Twitter hadn't
Speaker 1: taken off yet, so people on the internet started websites
Speaker 1: arguing the pros and cons of Junior's continued existence. Debating
Speaker 1: the merits, Ivanov joked that he would go into politics.
Speaker 1: His father stood up for him, pointing out that FIFA
Speaker 1: had asked referees to be stricter. The two thousand and
Speaker 1: sixth tournament finished with a record high of three and
Speaker 1: forty five yellow cards and twenty eight reds. Ivanov's mother
Speaker 1: had the more emotional defense. Her son speaks perfect English,
Speaker 1: he has a PhD in pedagogy. Quote, but his father
Speaker 1: dragged him into football. With that, my life came to
Speaker 1: an end, pic dramatic. What I'm trying to say is
Speaker 1: that he was a complete human being with needs and
Speaker 1: desires and terrors and sorrows. Even if he's not the
Speaker 1: best referee in history. He's not, But you know, I
Speaker 1: think even the best referee ever wouldn't have been able
Speaker 1: to handle that game properly because some of the players
Speaker 1: took that filled in order to kick and injure other players.
Speaker 1: So who was that fault for how the game turned out?
Speaker 1: Ivanov himself said it's hard to determine why a game
Speaker 1: suddenly becomes so rough quote, but happens. He added that
Speaker 1: the Portuguese game plan was expected. The Dutch surprised him,
Speaker 1: but the Dutch, the Dutch, I not like that. And
Speaker 1: the very fact that Marco van Boston, of all people,
Speaker 1: he was the coach and he was such an elegant striker.
Speaker 1: Van Boston accomplished everything in his short playing career besides
Speaker 1: winning the Ballondor thrice. He won the Euros, two European
Speaker 1: Cups and three Syria titles. He retired at twenty eight
Speaker 1: from injuries. The fact that Marco van Boston decided to
Speaker 1: send out his prayers in order to injure opponents, it's
Speaker 1: just disgusting. It's the fact that Marco van Boston became
Speaker 1: such a cynical and negative coach. It was very, very
Speaker 1: very disappointed, because really really disappointed. After the game, both
Speaker 1: Mark van Bamble and Rude Venus to Roy refused to
Speaker 1: play for Van Boston. Ever again, Ronaldo said of the
Speaker 1: fouls had clearly been intended to injure him. FIFA talks
Speaker 1: about fair play that he said there was no fair play.
Speaker 1: The game finished with sixteen yellows and four reds, a
Speaker 1: World Cup record, and just think how many more there
Speaker 1: would have been if Pippe had earned his Portuguese citizenship
Speaker 1: a year earlier. In the same World Cup, English referee
Speaker 1: Graham Paul gave a Croatian player three yellow cards before
Speaker 1: sending him off. Joseph Simnich referee mistakes stand out. We
Speaker 1: tend to talk about any other aspect of the game
Speaker 1: if it's well refed. Firstly, I take a positive view
Speaker 1: of the referees. I cannot conceive. I mean I think
Speaker 1: I can. I think I can conceive of how difficult
Speaker 1: it is to be a referee, or particularly alignsman. But
Speaker 1: I know that I can't because what I think of
Speaker 1: the difficulty is if I was ever placed in that
Speaker 1: situation for really, even for five minutes, given a linesman's job,
Speaker 1: and told to try and make important decisions which other
Speaker 1: people are going to be relying on. The ignomint is
Speaker 1: going to follow swiftly on my heels if I dare
Speaker 1: to make a mistake, I cannot conceive of how difficult
Speaker 1: that is. And I know they get things wrong. Ivanov's
Speaker 1: mother agrees, But when I look at referees and the
Speaker 1: track record they have of getting things right, I think
Speaker 1: it's just phenomenal that a human being can, for ninety
Speaker 1: minutes get that many things right. They get some stuff wrong,
Speaker 1: but go back years and watch some of the decisions then,
Speaker 1: and oh my word, I want to talk about something else.
Speaker 1: Everyone complained about Ivanov's performance, but this game freaking rocked.
Speaker 1: I mean, everyone likes goals, the whoosh of the ball
Speaker 1: in the net, the eruption of a yell in our
Speaker 1: throat before you fully register what's actually happened, the surge
Speaker 1: in the crowd, the moment the players drop their guard
Speaker 1: and hug each other like tizzy little children. But you
Speaker 1: know what's more rare than goals, red cards. More than
Speaker 1: even a goal, a red drastically alters the match. You've
Speaker 1: got to play. With one fewer human on your team,
Speaker 1: you will almost certainly lose. We should hold the beloved
Speaker 1: red card in a place of honor, cherish them. Listen.
Speaker 1: I get it. If you're Dutcher Portuguese, this game was bullshit.
Speaker 1: But if you're from one of two other national confederations
Speaker 1: that FIFA recognizes, holy held this game was fun. Our
Speaker 1: primitive brains could barely grasp it. Sits and wonders. But
Speaker 1: I think on the occasions that it's touched my own
Speaker 1: kind of that I've had skin in the game. I mean,
Speaker 1: you just move on, because the other thing about football
Speaker 1: is that next week there'll be a fresh story. Next week.
Speaker 1: You might win next week. I don't know, It's just
Speaker 1: a sport that continually renews. The Netherlands went on to
Speaker 1: make the final in the following World Cup, two ten.
Speaker 1: They're famously Nigel de Gng pleaded cha in the chest.
Speaker 1: He's looking could have been a red card, probably should
Speaker 1: have been. No attempt to play the ball at all,
Speaker 1: that's mu to the chest. Portugal went on to win
Speaker 1: the Euros because here's the man, there's one of the
Speaker 1: Unitade Chaptian ship. So the referee isn't something that I
Speaker 1: fixate on. Yeah, and I salute them because, as I say,
Speaker 1: I cannot conceive of how difficult it is what they do.
Speaker 1: And I think of all the incredible people, the incredible performance,
Speaker 1: the incredible talents that we see in football. Possibly referees
Speaker 1: are among the best. In the Guinness Book of World Records.
Speaker 1: The game with the most red cards came in the
Speaker 1: Argentine Fifth Division, a two thousand eleven match deteriorated into
Speaker 1: a full fledged bench clearing brawl. Fans even joined in
Speaker 1: the fighting. The referee sent off all two players, plus
Speaker 1: fourteen subs and coaches, thirty six red cards in total.
Speaker 1: Sites and wonders, no one cares how many goals were scored.
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