Graham Poll Yellow Card Disease is Spreading

Keeping track of how many yellow cards a player accumulates in a match seems like an easy enough task for a referee. If a player receives one yellow card he stays in the match. If he receives a second card he is sent off. It is a simple matter of counting to two, right?

As we saw with Graham Poll’s three yellow cards to one player act in the World Cup, even the sharpest tool in the referee tool shed can get confused.

In Mansfield Town’s 2-1 victory over the wonderfully named Milton Keynes Dons in England’s League Two this week, referee Kevin Wright apparently booked Mansfield Town’s Stephen Dawson twice but allowed him to continue to play before he was substituted out of the match by his coach, who had no clue his player had received two yellow cards.

Was it a case of Wright booking a player early in the game and then forgetting?

Dawson was first booked just before the break for a foul and then appeared to be shown a second a minute from time after lengthy protests over referee Kevin Wright’s decision not to award him a penalty.

So a full minute of play took place between cards. That is a lot of time….in dog years.

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Category: World Football

Tags: England League 2, Kevin Wright, Mansfield Town, Milton Keynes Dons, Stephen Dawson

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