My old friend Nic Smith, now settled in the cowboy country of New Mexico, contacts me to advise that a team-mate of his may have wangled his way into the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest person ever to have received a yellow card.
Referee Don Walcott, in a veterans' match between the Lounge Lizards and Los Alamos, awarded 80-year-old Bemis a yellow card. The reason given is a little spurious. Nic says the ref gave the card for delaying the restart of play by changing goalkeepers without permission. There's a bit of confusion here. If a player changes place with the 'keeper without telling the ref, both players should be booked.
Perhaps the 80-year-old rascal was one of the two. But he wouldn't be booked for delaying a restart. Still, it's not the worst crime in the law book and I'm sure he'll dine out on it for a few years to come at post-match celebrations.
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