The Stupid Sending-Off To Rule Over All Other Stupid Sendings-Off

By: Sam | February 8th, 2008

Ever since I really got into professional football a few years back, I’d been wondering if it had ever been done, but I never in my life had heard of it happening. Until today. In a Ligue 2 match that couldn’t possibly have been more ordinary, pitting middle-of-the-pack Reims against last-place Gueugnon, the score was tied at one apiece, and Reims defender, 28-year old Alexandre Barbier piced up a yellow card on 62 minutes. No big deal.

Seventeen minutes later though, after receiving a pass from Nabil Taider and converting it to put his side up in front, Barbier got a little too carried away and celebrated his fourth goal of the season by, you guessed it, doffing his shirt and waving it around. Red! Luckily for him, the score remained the same and his moment of idiocy turned out not to have cost Reims any points.

But for getting a second yellow for taking off your shirt, Alexandre Barbier, I salute you. Someone’s gotta do it. Does anyone else have any sending-off stories to tell? They’re very much welcome.

Category: France Ligue 1

Tags: barbier, celebration, ligue 2, reims, France Ligue 1, Tag Index

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• alexandre. |  February 8th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

  
  
  

  It happened to that scumbag Materazzi in the Milan derby in October 2006!

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• Richard |  February 8th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

  
  
  

  Fuck Materazzi!

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• mctalian |  February 9th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  
  
  

  aw, that’s cute that you guys still hate him so much.

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• mctalian |  February 9th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

  
  
  

  aw, that’s cute that you guys still hate him so much.

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• alexandre. |  February 10th, 2008 at 9:30 am

  
  
  

  He has always been a scumbag, though! I thought he was a scumbag when he punched out Bruno Cirillo! There is a reason why when he got hurt against Siena a few weeks ago they played on!

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• Nicolas |  April 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm

  
  
  

  If I remeber correctly, Robinho did it when he scored against Sevilla one year ago, he ran and ran after he scored, removed his shirt and then ran straight over to the locker rooms! It almost looked like it was the part of the celebration!

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