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micky2001

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Just wondering, can you show someone 2 yellows at the same time if they make 2 cautionable offences? Like USB the dissent? If yes, how would you show the cards to inform people of the 2 cards, like would you just gesticulate a mouth and then point to the incident?
 
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You can as long as the infringements do not happen at the same time, which would see you only punish the more serious infringement.

Most likely going to happen by an offence followed by some kind if dissent I guess
 
I once sent a player off and cautioned him twice one was kicking ball away then other was saying I don't know laws of game
 
That happened to Joey Barton earlier in the season - the referee showed him a yellow, Barton walked away, he called him back and gave him the second yellow.

However under the law, if a player commits both a cautionable and a send off offence, you only show the red card.
 
For the first-time, this happened to me on Saturday.

Early in second-half, player whom I'd spoken to earlier regarding his... attitude... recklessly tripped an opponent. Simple caution. Hit whistle and call him in, "yes, please number five." His reaction was to shout "well I might as well just leave now". It wasn't remotely close to DOGSO, so no idea what was going on other than him massively throwing his toys out the pram. Despite whistle and vocal suggestions that he should probably come back towards me, he just wandered off, removed his shirt and stood off the pitch.

Captain wouldn't confirm his name either and suggested that they were "going to make an unofficial substitution". I refused on two grounds: a) I'd allow a substitution only when I'd finished the cautioning process, and b) they didn't have any substitutes anyway. Bit more back and forth of attempting to acquire/confirm the player's name.

Showed yellow, paused, moved closer towards the #5 then showed yellow-red. See ya, fella.

Wanted to come back on 15 minutes later, amusingly.
 
I've done this twice this season. Point to first offence and show yellow card and point to the second offence and do the same. Bringing in the captain to explain at the same time, might help stop his team mates coming to congratulate you and shake your hand as you show the red card.
 
The key thing is to make it obvious that you don't think he's previously been booked, and that both yellow cards are being given at the time.
 
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