Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I was thinking about this yesterday whilst watching the Palace v Arsenal game. The Arsenal player, dunno his name, was in a filthy mood and close to a second booking so Wenger called him off. The board goes up, the ref acknowledges it and signals for the player to go off, the substitution was announced on the tannoy and the sub is ready on the touchline as the Arsenal player walks off.
If the Arsenal player, whilst walking off but still on the pitch, had then abused the crowd or a Palace player and picked up another yellow would Arsenal have gone down to ten men with the substitution cancelled or would the act of the ref previously acknowledging the substitution mean that the player was effectively already out of the game and Arsenal could carry on with 11 men? Does that make sense?
If the Arsenal player, whilst walking off but still on the pitch, had then abused the crowd or a Palace player and picked up another yellow would Arsenal have gone down to ten men with the substitution cancelled or would the act of the ref previously acknowledging the substitution mean that the player was effectively already out of the game and Arsenal could carry on with 11 men? Does that make sense?