{"id":416172,"date":"2026-06-13T11:39:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/?p=416172"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:39:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:39:58","slug":"premier-league-says-hair-pulling-no-longer-warrants-an-automatic-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/premier-league-says-hair-pulling-no-longer-warrants-an-automatic-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League says hair pulling no longer warrants an automatic red card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">June 13 : The English Premier League said on Friday that pulling an opponent&#8217;s hair will not necessarily warrant an automatic red card under changes to refereeing guidelines for next season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The league said in a statement that a red card will apply where hair pulling is carried out with &#8220;excessive force and\/or brutality&#8221;, while incidents deemed to be deliberate but without excessive force will be punished with a yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change comes after Manchester United&#8217;s Lisandro Martinez, Everton&#8217;s Michael Keane and Sunderland&#8217;s Dan Ballard were sent off for pulling an opponent&#8217;s hair last season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The clarification was part of a wider set of principles outlining how referees will apply the laws of the game in the upcoming season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Premier League said that holding will be more closely scrutinised, with referees encouraged to penalise non-footballing actions that have a material impact on opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Referees will also place more emphasis on protecting goalkeepers, penalising players who initiate contact without a genuine attempt to play the ball if it impacts the keeper&#8217;s ability to challenge for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13 : The English Premier League said on Friday that pulling an opponent&#8217;s hair will not necessarily warrant an automatic red card under changes to refereeing guidelines for next season. The league said in a statement that a red card will apply where hair pulling is carried out with &#8220;excessive force and\/or brutality&#8221;, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416173,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416172\/revisions\/416173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}