Three Yellow Cards…The Explanation.

June 27th, 2006 | By: Soze | 9 Comments »

Poll/SimunicIn a WC first, Croatia’s Joe Šimunić received three yellow cards in one game. In the 61st minute of the Croatia Australia clash was the first, to be followed by the second in the 89th minute. At this point you would figure that Joe would be on his way to the dressing room, but he stayed on.

Here is Joe’s explanation: “At first it didn’t even faze me that I received a second yellow, all I could think about was that we need a goal. After a minute or so, I realized what happened and that I should have been shown the red..someone on the field even commented on that..but at this point I did not care. All I could think about was to score.” He adds, “Anyway, it’s the ref’s own fault for not realizing what he did.” “After the game, I went up to him and told him what happened, and that is when he showed me the yellow again and the red. I congratulated him and that was that.”

The ref, Graham Poll added “In the 89th minute when I produced the yellow, I wrote down the right jersey number but the wrong name..I had inadvertantly given the yellow to the Australian number 3, Craig Moore.” “This is the first time something like this has happened to me in my 26 year long career.”



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Username By Milan | June 28th, 2006 at 12:11 am
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Poll is a Complete Wanker…..

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Username By LiverpoolFC | June 30th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
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So if Moore had’ve got a yellow he would’ve been sent off, what an IDIOT, Good Riddens Poll, u DUMBASS

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Username By Joka | July 3rd, 2006 at 3:52 pm
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Hope to see you in South Africa 2010.

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Username By Denis Susac | July 6th, 2006 at 10:00 am
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I updated my site….

http://www.denissusac.net.ms

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[...] Needless to say I’m annoyed with FIFA and the plethora of red and yellow cards, dubiously culminating in their shameful decision to suspend Torsten Frings for a love-swipe after the Argentina quarterfinal. Overall, the reffing has been — I was going to type “fair” — let’s just say it hasn’t changed the outcome of any of the games from the quarterfinals on (with the possible exception of the above-mentioned, but that was FIFA, not an individual ref). Prior to that I can think of no less than three matches that I saw that were hugely altered by outright gaffes or over-reactions: Italy-U.S. (no need to say more); Italy-Australia (total dive for the PK); and of course the Dutch-Portugal bloodbath. Then there was the Rooney incident and of course, the double-yellow/no red in Croatia-Australia, which I didn’t see. (All of which led one blogger to ask, “which was the worst refereed game you saw?” Frankly, I can’t decide.) I’m not even counting U.S-Ghana here, which feels like small potatoes compared to some of these. [...]

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Username By hrvatica | July 27th, 2006 at 9:33 am
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well, theres always 2010!!! CROATIA’S MY TEAM

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Username By Bergy | August 25th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
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Hello i think that we ar very good team…. Kiss to all croats
Proud to be Croat!!!
DAkle sad malo na hrvatskom…nismo mi krivi kaj nem je izbornik bio u banani i kaj nismo imali treninge jer je trener bio u kaficu i kaj smo bili posvadani…Al zato smo dobili italiju 2:0 i mislim da to nekaj znaci….. Pusa

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Username By Matt | November 6th, 2006 at 7:50 am
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The most interesting thing is that after the game, FIFA admited that if Croatia had won, they would have had no choice but to replay the game…

That would have thrown the World Cup into chaos as the winner had to play italy less than a week later.

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Username By Dado Prso | December 10th, 2006 at 5:21 am
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Poll cant refferee he cant telll good from bad shit head

this is Dado Prso

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