red card
noun
soccer
: a red card that a referee holds in the air to indicate that a player who has broken the rules of the game will not be allowed to continue playing
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The Manchester United head coach was shown a red card yesterday, only 14 months after joining from Sporting Lisbon.
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Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 6 Jan. 2026
There was a battling penalty-shootout victory at Arsenal in the FA Cup, when United had played for an hour with 10 men after Diogo Dalot’s red card.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Kansas City struck first when Zach Reget picked out Nacho Flores for the opener, and the intensity of the rivalry escalated early in the second quarter when Milwaukee’s Derek Huffman was issued a red card for throwing Christian Anderaos head-first into the boards.
—Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
Backup goalkeeper Pablo Sisniega started Saturday but got a straight red card in the 79th minute, forcing 19-year-old Duran Ferree into an unscheduled MLS debut.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
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Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 6 Jan. 2026
There was a battling penalty-shootout victory at Arsenal in the FA Cup, when United had played for an hour with 10 men after Diogo Dalot’s red card.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
Kansas City struck first when Zach Reget picked out Nacho Flores for the opener, and the intensity of the rivalry escalated early in the second quarter when Milwaukee’s Derek Huffman was issued a red card for throwing Christian Anderaos head-first into the boards.
—Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 16 Dec. 2025
Backup goalkeeper Pablo Sisniega started Saturday but got a straight red card in the 79th minute, forcing 19-year-old Duran Ferree into an unscheduled MLS debut.
—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2025
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“Red card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red%20card. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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