AFTER CALLUM McMANAMAN’S horror challenge on Massadio Haidara in Sunday’s clash between Wigan Athletic and Newcastle United, we looked at six other reducers that failed to result in a red card.
Phil Bardsley of Sunderland on Everton’s Steven Pienaar in March 2008. Bardsley later apologised to the South African.
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John Terry’s tackle on James Milner was a shocker, but the then England captain was not sent off in the 2010 FA Cup semi-final.
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Stephen Hunt lunges in on Manchester City’s Gelson Fernandes and gets a strict telling off from Richard Dunne. The Wexford man’s foot was almost at the Swiss player’s hip.
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Nigel De Jong’s kung fu kick on Xabi Alonso in the 2010 World Cup Final only earned the Dutchman a yellow card. Phenomenal.
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Joey Barton has never been shy in going in with his studs up, on or off the tweet box, as Dickson Etuhu discovered.
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Finally, Keano. A red card in today’s football language, just a booking for this shocker on Neil Pointon in 1994.
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