Bad behaviour at yesterday’s one day cricket match between
England and Sri Lanka, when there was a “run out” issue, rates small when
compared to England’s next football opponent Ecuador who had their entire team
sent off in 1978 in a bad tempered international match. England play Ecuador in a World Cup warm up at the Sunlife Stadium in Miami, giving our national squad a chance to play in humid conditions. we hope there will be Corinthian behaviour. I know, but will not name, the first Corinthian Casual (the club regarded as the bastion of fair play) to be sent off in an Isthmian League game, and by the time he got to the home changing room, his clothes were presented to him and he was asked to leave the ground immediately. Never darken our doors-mind you the Casuals never had a home ground at that time, so this rule would not stand up. Alan Mullery (Tottenham Hotspur) became the
first English international to be dismissed when he saw red in a European Championship
semi-final against Yugoslavia in 1968. Ray Wilkins was our first red card
player in a World Cup match in 1986 against Morocco. Ramon Moya,
manager of CF Hospitalet lost control when his team scored a last minute winner
in a French second division match that he kissed the linesman and was dismissed
for “ungentlemanly behaviour” or was it violent play?
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