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?Last month, Lazio scored a late winner (in the 82nd minute) against Parma despite having two players sent off earlier in the game,? writes Bogdan Kotarlic. ?I wonder if any team has scored a goal (or maybe more) with eight players and with three players receiving red cards before that??
There?s only one place to start: Boghead Park, Dumbarton. ?In August 1991, Premier Division Airdrieonians played Dumbarton in the Scottish League Cup,? writes Bill Hall. ?What looked like an innocuous tie was anything but - especially for Dumbarton?s Colin McNair, Stephen Gow and Jimmy Gilmour, who were shown red cards in what must have been a bad-tempered affair (I was there but it was 34 years ago, and I was in the pub beforehand, so memories are a bit vague).
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