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Old Fri Jun 24, 2011, 09:07am
Eastshire Eastshire is offline
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FWIW, the player didn't receive a red for the jewelry but according to reports a yellow for entering the field without permission after being directed to leave to fix the jewelry and a yellow for being unable to show the referee the jewelry had been removed for privacy reasons.

The video shows the player and referee disappearing into the dressing room after which a straight red is shown (not the yellow then red which would have been shown if the paper's account was correct).

If I had to guess, some offensive, insulting or abusive language was aimed the ref's way in the dressing room and that was the true reason for the sendoff.
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