Meet Gary Linekar The Only Player Who Never Got A Yellow Card In His Career
Football is a very emotional game and most times the players go out of their minds and commit fouls that harm others on the field of play.
In this process, they are booked with a yellow or red card depending on the degree of the conduct.
Even the most gentle and cool tempered players occasionally gets upset, and thereby becomes moody, act with some rash impulse and the excessive flow of adrenaline, only for them to later regret their actions after being sent off. Sometimes these players tender apologies.
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| Gary Linekar was never booked in his senior career which spanned 16 years and 567 competitive games |
Haven said all these, it is very difficult to see a football player that has never been shown a yellow not to talk of red in their entire playing career. I mean long playing career.
Think of cool headed players like Lionel Messi; he has been shown the yellow card in quite a number of matches (especially the El Clasico) because Sergio Ramos knows how to provoke him.
Messi have even received two red cards in his entire career; one on his debut for Argentina national team and the other in Copa America 2019 in third place match against Chile.
Diego Armando “the god" Maradona isn't exempted from the list of booked footballers.
Notable booked players are Sergio Ramos with double figures for both yellow and red cards (he's now the most cautioned player in UCL history)
And Zinedine Zidane also had his fare share in bookings; infact he ended his glorious football career with a red card..since he wouldn't be playing anymore, he had to do 80 hours community work to pay for that.
Garry Lineker from England is the only footballer who got never booked in his senior career which spanned 16 years and 567 competitive games scoring a total of 330 goals.
Neither in International matches nor in club matches no referee booked him for yellow or red.
Linekar was a darling in and out of the pitch and we wonder if he ever got annoyed by his opponents.
But it's a record that's worth celebrating with a sports that's filled with anger, rage and emotions that's spilled out continually.
It will take a long time before we see another player go 5–10 years without being booked.
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