[Carl Anka] Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez to serve three-game ban for hair pull red card | Referees told clubs at the start of the season hair pulling would be seen as violent conduct and United’s appeal has been unsuccessful.
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![[Carl Anka] Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez to serve three-game ban for hair pull red card | Referees told clubs at the start of the season hair pulling would be seen as violent conduct and United’s appeal has been unsuccessful.](https://www.eucup.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ZDciRzB6YMkjC-y7IZtpnJDiVf_S5BkJ5RviOZhSwZk-1024x683.jpeg "[Carl Anka] Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez to serve three-game ban for hair pull red card | Referees told clubs at the start of the season hair pulling would be seen as violent conduct and United’s appeal has been unsuccessful.")
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**Title From athletic’s tweet:**
Manchester United’s Lisandro Martinez will serve a three-match Premier League suspension after his red card for a hair pull on Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Referees told clubs at the start of the season hair pulling would be seen as violent conduct and United’s appeal has been unsuccessful.
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Ahh, I’m glad the referees have such a clear line in the sand of what is a foul and what isn’t. That way they’ll be very consistent in their decision making.
Time to field a squad full of man buns and hope to get lucky
We should force all our players to wear wigs for the rest of the season to protest that decision. And hopefully, we can bait a few opponents grabbing the wig.
Rule No 1 for every new player
Grow hair and have pony tail within 6 months
Genuine tactical disadvantage for balds
~~Hated. Adored. Never ignored.~~
Hated. Hated. Hated. 🙁
Fuck it. No more gripping at all. Shirt grabs of any kinda should get called.
Knowing our luck this season someone is going to pull one of our player’s hair literally next game and not get sent off lol
Seems like long hair is the best base for premier league football. Let the youths know to start growing it out now in the academy.
Obligatory fuck the FA and the PGMOL
Time for Zirkzee to shine
Half the sub turning into Abe Simpson yelling that Joe Namath looks like a girl
Everyone is going to be looking like Andy Carroll and Cucurella next season to get easy red cards.
Need to get the message across to all our players to start calling out everything to the refs and persist. If we can get red cards for shit like this then the next time any minor thing happens I want us circling the refs. No more rules for one and not the other
Can the club sue pgmol?
Misses games vs 3 teams in the top 7 for THAT.
Just so frustrating
Everyone will have a topknot next season.
Do we have a buyback for fellaini?
Unless you are Semenyo about a month ago. Fuck these refs.
Is it too late to bring Fellaini back?
Games gone
So I guess new tactic is for every player to grow really long hair if they are able and thus they cannot be jostled for an airball.
Can’t wait until we start seeing players going down holding their ponytails next season
3 game ban for that is absolutely mental
Players should genuinely grow their hair out and put it in a ponytail. Lots of accidental hands/fingers can result in a red
Starting 11 with each player looking like Cousin Itt is the new way to guaranteed win the league
i’ll get downvotes so whatever.
But if we’re going letter of the law, fine. sucks. but fine.
just effing apply letter of the law to opposing teams as well.
“hair pulling would be seen as violent conduct “… So why wasn’t Tete punished oh let me guess it wasn’t “seen”.
Whatever happens for the rest of the year, we need to get Schlotterbeck! We have 3 senior CBs and 2 of them are injury prone and one of them is going to be 34.
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