A sending off in a friendly is rare, so it must have been blatant. Usually the manager is 'requested' to make a substitution.
Matlock are beating the Stags 1 - 0 and then had a player sent off. Nigel Clough voluntarily took the Stags down to 10 players. Don't see something like that happen very often...
Last edited by SwalePie; 16-07-2021 at 10:33 PM.
A sending off in a friendly is rare, so it must have been blatant. Usually the manager is 'requested' to make a substitution.
Not sure I explained it very well. It was the Matlock player sent off, and the Stags evened it up by taking their player off. I've seen managers told to sub a player, so as not to have that player sent off in a friendly, but not seen the 'aggrieved' team voluntarily go down to 10 men.