Referee Becomes The Equaliser

Let’s play “You’re the ref”. You’ve used your yellow card, but there’s still trouble flaring. You’ve used your red card, but that only seemed to make matters worse. What should a referee pull out of his pocket next if there’s still trouble a-brewing?
In Brazilian Gabriel Murta’s case – a gun. The trigger-happy amateur referee whipped out his piece (so to speak) in an amateur game in Brumadinho, in Brazil’s southeast, after feeling threatened during a tense match.
As a result, Murta – who is a policeman in his full-time job – will undergo a psychological assessment.
Murta claims he was kicked and punched by a player from Amantes da Bola, one of the teams involved. He hit back action-movie style, liberating his little friend and looking as though he was going to use it.
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