Referee trips over player, kicks out at him in anger and then sends the player off!

[ianh]

Hi all,

This is a bit of a 'link and run' as I don't use the football forum much but wow what the hell!

So Nick Chapron is refereeing the Nantes vs PSG when, as PSG were on the break, he ran across the path of Nantes player Diego Carlos tripping himself up. After his tumble he kicks out at the player before collecting himself and giving Diego a second yellow card and sending him off.

There's been a lot of talk about "it was the ref's fault" with the referee being banned and the card rescinded as well as "it was the players fault" as he should have avoided the ref.

There's a video of the incident in the following link - https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/video/referee-kicks-nantes-player-then-084120774.html

 

[ianh]

Well it makes sense, although it is "good" to see that it was the ref himself who told the LFP that the card was a mistake but at least he's still in the poop for the kick-out.