Question on the radio

[BensGrandad]

Whilst driving I heard a question on the radio but was not able to hear the answer perhaps somebody will know it.

When were red and yellow cards first introduced in soccer?

Who was the first to receive a yellow?
a straight red?
and a red for 2 yellows?

This is not a trick question.

 

[The Timekeeper]

A chap called Ken Aston invented the red and yellow card system some 35 years ago see link below.

http://www.tiburonsoccer.org/Referees/Ken_Aston.htm

Hope this helps

 

[marvin]

http://www.footballculture.net/insider/trivia_cards.html

Red and Yellow Cards

Being shown the card

Not content with blowing an all-powerful Acme Thunderer whistle, it was an English referee who first thought of using red and yellow cards.

Ken Aston was in charge of the referees at the 1966 World Cup. During England's stormy quarter-final against Argentina at Wembley, the visiting captain, Antonio Rattin, refused to leave the field after being sent off by the German referee, Rudolf Kreitlein.

Aston ran on to the pitch and, in his schoolboy Spanish, tried to persuade Rattin to depart so the game could continue. Driving away from the stadium later that day Aston began to ponder the problem of how referees could make their intentions clear to players without having to speak the same language. At that same moment he stopped at some traffic lights and saw the red, amber and green. And that's how the idea of using coloured cards was born.

Red and yellow cards were first used by FIFA referees during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico. Ironically, not one player was sent off throughout that entire tournament!

Although the idea was born in England, red and yellow cards were not used in the English leagues until 1976. Even then, following complaints by players that referees were brandishing the cards too readily, their use was suspended between 1981 and 1987.

Interestingly, in hockey, the referees have three cards: green for a warning, yellow for temporary dismissal from the pitch, and red for a permanent sending off.

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[BensGrandad]

Thanks to those who told me when the cards were invented but does anybody know the answers to the other parts i.e who first received a yellow? a straight red? and then a red following two yellows?