Seeing Red (17 page)

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My first Football League ‘middle', Rotherham United against Burnley, in 1991.

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I have to take avoiding action as Manchester United captain Steve Bruce objects to my awarding a penalty for QPR at Loftus Road in 1994. Paul Parker can't believe it.

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The picture Pierluigi Collina sent me for my 40th birthday. It shows us at the 2002 World Cup in Korea.

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Holland against Argentina in the Amsterdam Arena in March 1999. It was a friendly – but I had to send off Edgar Davids.

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World Cup 2006 fitness test in Frankfurt. I am setting the pace for Lubos Michel (Slovakia), Eric Poulat (France) and Roberto Rosetti (Italy).

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Free time at Euro 2000 in Brussels: with Anders Frisk (far left), Hugh Dallas (brown jacket and a pint) and Kim Milton Nielsen (front right).

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The 61st minute of Croatia versus Australia and I am cautioning Josip Simunic (for the first time!).

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The crucial page from my notebook from the 2006 World Cup: my mistaken recording of Croatia 3's second caution. The letter C appears, wrongly, against the yellow (Australian) 3.

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I stop Patrick Vieira, Sol Campbell and Thierry Henry from making their point.

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As Sir Alex Ferguson acknowledges in the Foreword, he did not always agree with my decisions. This dispute is at Stamford Bridge.

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Roy Keane is calm enough as I deal with an incident at Highbury but Gary Neville is less so.

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Real Madrid have just lost 3-0 to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League in 2004. Perhaps I should not have looked so happy, but David Beckham gave me that shirt for my daughter.

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Before a match at Portsmouth in the 2003/04 season.