4. A PARROT 21 JANUARY 2009 HATFIELD V HERTFORD HEATH IN THE HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY FA CUP

This is without doubt 100% the stupidest and weirdest red card on this list, and it’s also so unbelievably stupid that you can’t believe that it actually happened. The story goes that Hatfield were playing Hertford Heath one winter when referee Gary Bailey was upset about a repeated whistling sound that kept holding up play.

Eventually the noise was tracked down to a 66 year old woman called Irene Kerrigan who had decided to bring her parrot Me-Tu to give it some fresh air. You know, as you do. Gary Bailey wasn’t very happy about this or her excuse so issued the pair both with red cards and ordered them to leave the stadium immediately.

This is really stupid for two reasons: 1) Neither of them were involved in the game so giving them a red card doesn’t really mean anything and 2) Me-Tu was a parrot. Ridiculous.

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