Jamie Carragher led a Halloween horror show as eight red cards
were flashed in the Premier League in one day.
Carragher was sent off in the 82nd minute of Liverpool’s 3-1
defeat at Fulham, just three minutes after his team-mate Philipp
Degen had also been given his marching orders by referee Lee
Mason.
And the bad behaviour wasn’t confined to England’s top flight -
there were four dismissed in the Scottish Premier League in a grand
total of 19 up and down the country.
Early bath: Jamie Carragher is sent-off during
Liverpool's defeat to Fulham
There was no sign of the card carnage to come as half-time
approached yesterday. Bolton defender JLloyd Samuel cracked first
and was dismissed for hauling down Didier Drogba in a 4-0 defeat by
Chelsea.
Cheerio: Samuel clatters Drogba
Seconds later Kenwyne Jones was walking after a clash with West
Ham’s Herita Ilunga in Sunderland’s 2-2 draw at the Stadium of
Light.
Face off: Jones saw red for this push on Ilunga
Referee Andre Marriner later levelled it up by sending off
Radislav Kovac.
Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill accused official Lee Probert
of doing likewise in his side’s game at Everton which finished 1-1
and 10-a-side.
Fury: O'Neill vents his spleen at ref Probert as
Cuellar is shown red
Everton’s Diniyar Bilyaletdinov was sent off three minutes
before being followed by Villa’s Carlos Cuellar, and O’Neill said:
‘The referee got their red card right but you don’t want to go
levelling things up and that’s exactly what the referee did.’
Hull’s Geovanni was the eighth player dismissed, during the 2-0
defeat at Burnley.
Wounded Tiger: Geovanni (second right) is given his
marching orders