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SIN BIN ERROR FORCES CUP TIE REPLAY

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
15 August 2021

By Robin Jones

A REFEREEING blunder has robbed Western Premier outfit Bridgwater United of their 2-1 victory at Brixham AFC in the Emirates FA Cup extra preliminary round last Saturday.
After earlier having given Jordan Greenwood a straight sending-off, the referee ordered United striker Jack Taylor to the sin bin to sit out ten minutes instead of dismissing him for a second yellow card.
However the cup rules do not include a sin bin option, and Taylor should have instead been sent off.
Unusually, it was victors Bridgwater – and not losers Brixham – who first pointed out ...

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