In one of the more bizarre bookings we’ve come across, a Swedish footballer was shown a yellow card last month for doing an impression.
Well OK, that’s not technically true. He actually got booked for tucking the ball under his shirt as it bounced up in front of him from a chip-pass – but to BBM’s eyes, it made him a dead ringer for big, fat Sam Allardyce.
Midfielder Jan Gunnar Solli, who plays for Swedish club Hammarby, attempted the mad move with his team leading 5-0 against Degerfors. We’re not sure what his plan was. Maybe he thought if he looked pregnant, the opposition would be too afraid to tackle him and he could simply walk the ball into the net. Or maybe, with the match already in the bag, he was just being a cocky knobsack.
Anyway, the showboating fool was immediately booked by the referee and then copped a mouthful from a pissed-off Degerfors player.
It’s not the weirdest booking we’ve seen though. Who can forget Zaire’s Mwepu Ilunga’s yellow card in a match against Brazil in the 1974 World Cup? While waiting to defend a free-kick in a dangerous position, Ilunga came up with a unique plan for dismissing the danger – charging out of the wall and booting the ball to kingdom come before it had even been touched by the bemused Brazil players.
Paul Gascoigne was famously booked for jokingly showing referee Dougie Smith a yellow card after the official had dropped them on the pitch.
And Joey Barton has gone in the referee’s notebook several times purely for being an immense arsehole.
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