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SPORTS Referee Hands Out 3 Yellow Cards In Game
And now something for the followers of futbol today. As you are no
doubt aware, we are a little more than mid-way through the World Cup.
Last week the otherwise highly rated referee Graham Poll made an error you
would rarely see in an amateur weekend match, let alone the greatest
soccer tournament in the world.
During the Australia-Croatia match, Poll handed Croatian player Josip Simunic
three yellow cards in a game. The maximum number of yellow cards a player is
allowed is two. Two yellow cards in a game equals a red card and a red card
signifies a player's ejection from the game.
To put this in baseball terms, it would be like an umpire calling a fourth strike
before telling the batter he is out.
What is even more amazing is that nobody on the officiating crew caught the error
that was clearly on display to millions of television viewers.
