Romario's Last game!!!

[soccermusician]

Hey guys, does anyone know the name of the referee of the Brazil and Guatemala friendly wenesday night in Sau Paulo? The idiot gave Romario a yellow card for taking his shirt off to celebrate when it is his last game of his career i think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad:

[ManiacalClown]

Can't really fault the referee for doing so. It's been expressed quite clearly that they are expected to give a compulsory caution if the shirt is removed. It would reflect badly on them, particularly in their match assessment, if they did not, in fact, do so.

[MassachusettsRef]

Any guesses on whether or not the yellow would have came out if Romario already had one?

[DerbyRam54]

When Tim Cahill of Everton got a second yellow for pulling his shirt over his head last year there was outrage that a player could be dismissed for celebrating a goal. One of those expressing his disbelief was Sepp Blatter, presumably no relation to the Sepp Blatter who presided over the IFAB meeting where a mandatory caution for removing your shirt was instituted in the first place.
Of course, since then we've had clarification of what constitutes removing your shirt, clearly a tricky act to define yet vital to the future of the game as we know it.