Semantics. Yes, it is specifically spot-fixing - still a type of match fixing.
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[Football] Former referee Mark Halsey admits booking player who asked for card
- Thread starter clippedgull
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Semantics. Yes, it is specifically spot-fixing - still a type of match fixing.
um bongo molongo
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I seem to remember our own Lewis Dunk making a rather obvious attempt to get booked a couple of seasons ago to invite his suspension during an FA Cup week - much debated on here. From memory he had two goes at it - kicked the ball away and wasn't booked so then kicked it again a bit further ��
nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
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wasn't there a game when both Duffy and Dunk were one yellow away from suspension at the same time. Duffy (I think) got himself a really really silly yellow and missed the next game, but it meant that we didn't lose both at the same time
He seems to have hardly been booked since. Although I've just looked up last season, and he was actually booked 7 times - just nowhere near any suspensions.
Mark Halsey should have kept his mouth shut at all points in this story. However, take the blah blah out of this - its a bookable offence - end of
AnotherArch
Northern Exile
Then there was Steve Foster many years ago desperately trying to get himself sent off at Notts County - and failing. Having been booked, a sending off would have meant that he would not have missed the Cup Final. When you think how some players have got themselves stupidly sent off since, this does go down as a failure from Fozzie.
Sussex Nomad
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It is match fixing, you are fixing the following match.
I read somewhere that the ref was a Man U fan. Might be urban legend but makes sense!