http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qzbfxx8bq3M
Referees and fans of the game have both grown
increasing suspicious and paranoid about footballers diving, but
this incident in a match between Belgian amateur sides Templeuve
and Quevy proves that sometimes they do deserve the benefit of the
doubt.
Julien Lecomte was going up for a header in the box when a clash
of heads left him seriously injury late in the match. The referee,
however, presumably thought he was taking a dive to try and win a
penalty, so he booked Lecomte, who was already on a yellow card.
This led to the supremely bizarre scene of the ref showing Lecomte
a second yellow and the subsequent red card while Lecomte lay
incapacitated on a hospital stretcher just before being wheeled off
the pitch.
Lecomte reportedly suffered three displaced vertebrae and a
concussion from the collision, which is either evidence that he's
willing to go a long way to try and gain an advantage for his team
or that this referee needs to be a little less cynical.