Chile beat defending Copa America champions Uruguay 1-0 in an expectedly feisty quarterfinal match. With Luis Suarez unavailable to lead everyone down the path of anarchy, the responsibility fell to everyone else. And in the 62nd minute, Edinson Cavani was shown a second yellow for slapping Chile’s Gonzalo Jara in the face.
But what the referee and the initial camera angle didn’t catch was where Jara’s hand was before Cavani slapped him…
Colombia beat Brazil for the first time since 1991, avenging last summer’s World Cup quarterfinal loss with a 36th minute goal from Jeison Murillo in Copa America Group C. But once the final whistle blew, the real fun began.
It started with Neymar kicking the ball at a celebrating Pablo Armero, then lightly headbutting goal scorer Murillo, prompting Colombia striker Carlos Bacca to come charging in and shove him from behind.
Clint’s right: Why tear up the record books when you could tear up the ref’s book instead? http://t.co/4lll2eeb79
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Espen Hoff was shown a straight red in the 40th minute of IK Start’s Norwegian Tippeligaen match against Sarpsborg for preventing a scoring chance. Frustrated by his early exit, he attempted a running kick at the open door to the dressing rooms, but forgot that football boots don’t grip slick flooring too well and ended up on his ass.
Without missing a beat, he got up and walked on, suddenly more embarrassed than angry.
Start went on to lose 2-1.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
Central Coast Mariners held a testimonial for retiring captain John Hutchinson and the match included a mascot dressed as a BBQ sauce bottle, because why the hell not?
The sauce bottle weaved its way through a group of players loitering around the middle of the pitch to set itself up for a clear shot on goal, but Brent Griffiths cut the bottle down with a vicious tackle from behind. This earned Griffiths a red card. In a testimonial. Against a sauce bottle.
The match also included a ball boy in goal at one point and ended 12-5 in favor of Hutchinson’s team. The main takeaway from all of this, however, is that the world needs more footballing BBQ sauce bottles.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
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Some players don’t react well to being shown a yellow card and Union Perene’s goalkeeper is apparently one of them. After getting booked in a Copa Peru match, the keeper chased down the unsuspecting ref and kicked him square in the back.
Once the ref got back up, he sent off the keeper and presumably spent that evening picking his studs out of his back.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
With Barcelona up 1-0 late in their match against Celta Vigo, Sergio Busquets took his sweet time preparing to take a free kick. Celta’s Fabian Orellana did not appreciate what he perceived to be Busquets wasting time, so he picked up a chunk of the earth and threw it at him.
Just when you thought that Steven Gerrard’s 38-second appearance against Manchester United was the strangest sending off of 2015, Internacional defender Fabricio provides one that’s even more surreal.
Both Internacional and visiting Ypiranga were reduced to 10 men late in the first half, but the 28 year old put his side down to nine in the 63rd minute when he apparently couldn’t take the verbal abuse of his own club’s fans any longer and gave them not one middle finger, but two.
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard did not start Sunday’s highly anticipated match against Manchester United, but with his side down 1-0 at halftime, he was brought on for Adam Lallana. And 48 seconds later, he was sent off.
Costa Rican side Herediano beat Club America 3-0 in the first leg of their CONCACAF Champions League semifinal, prompting the losing side to take out their frustration on one player specifically.
Herediano’s Cristhian Lagos took the ball off of Michael Arroyo, who retaliated by planting his studs in Lagos’ ankle. This sent the Costa Rican to the ground and when Arroyo’s teammate went to kick the ball away, he connected with Lagos’ face instead.
Arroyo was shown a red card for the initial challenge, but Paolo Goltz went unpunished for the face kick. Lagos was substituted in the 78th minute and his replacement, Jonathan Hansen, went on to score Herediano’s third goal four minutes later.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.