Football news - 'Did you take your shirt off?' - How to avoid being booked by the referee
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Published 10/11/2018 at 18:23 GMT
If you take your shirt off in football, you receive a yellow card. Simple as that... or is it?
Football - Premier League - Cardiff City v Brighton & Hove Albion - Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, Britain - November 10, 2018 Cardiff City's Sol Bamba celebrates scoring their second goal with Kadeem Harris
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Sol Bamba scored a last-minute winner to help Cardiff to their second win of the season on Saturday against Brighton.
Naturally the centre-half's emotions got the best of him and he took off his shirt as he ran towards the home fans.
We're pretty sure that the thought of a yellow card didn't even cross his mind as the goal went in.
However, Bamba somehow escaped without the booking!
Incredibly, referee Martin Atkinson managed to miss the celebrations as the Cardiff defender revealed after the match.
The ref said to me 'did you take your shirt off?' I said 'no I didn't'
Easy.
We can't help but wonder how Atkinson didn't see the Cardiff celebration because it was pretty clear.
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Football - Premier League - Cardiff City v Brighton & Hove Albion - Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff, Britain - November 10, 2018 Cardiff City's Sol Bamba celebrates scoring their second goal with Kadeem Harris
Image credit: Reuters
You can't really slyly take off your shirt when you're celebrating a stoppage-time winner.
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