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VIDEO: Yoav Ziv’s Unorthodox Red Card Against Stoke City

Think you've seen every possible way a player can be sent off? You haven't until you've watched Yoav Ziv's dismissal during Maccabi Tel Aviv's Europa League match against Stoke City. It's like nothing you've ever seen before, unless you've have had the pleasure of seeing a player missing a shoe boot said boot straight at the assistant referee.

Or, as Mr. Ziv’s Wikipedia page currently states, “During the 2011-12 UEFA Europa League match against Stoke City the [illegitimate child] kicked his loose boot at the assistant referee and was sent off.” Quite.

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