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[Getty Images] BBC Radio Leeds reporter Adam Pope says referee, Thomas Bramall, "absolutely ruined" Leeds' game against Crystal Palace "with the cheapest yellow" card, which saw Gabriel Gudmundsson receive a red card. On a weekend when the spotlight was on referees, Bramall possibly thought there would be no more controversy after Chelsea's starting XI surrounded Paul Tierney in their pre-match huddle against Newcastle. However, as Tierney watched on from the fourth official position at Crystal Palace the following day, he would witness Bramall give Gudmundsson a second yellow, followed by a delayed red card.
Surely, Bramall had not forgotten about Gudmundsson's 26th-minute yellow card, which he picked up for fouling Brennan Johnson? "I didn't think the referee was doing a bad job - he called the [Leeds] penalty in real time straight away," Pope told the Don't Go To Bed Just Yet podcast. "Then he absolutely ruined it with the cheapest yellow card.
Getting it so wrong to the point he had forgotten he had given a yellow already. " Similar to Pope's views, Kaiser Chiefs' bassist, Simon Rix, thinks Bramall had a "nightmare" officiating the 0-0 draw. "When you have had such a bad day at the office - has he been to sleep yet?
"He tries to blag that he hasn't forgotten that he has given a yellow, but his face on the live telly... " Gudmundsson's red card was Leeds' first sending off in the Premier League season, with Arsenal being the only side this season to not have a player sent off in the Premier League campaign. Listen below or on BBC Sounds here - and don't forget to subscribe to get each episode into your My Sounds feed.
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