{"id":397731,"date":"2026-04-14T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397731\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:16:08","slug":"roy-keane-slams-martinez-hair-pull-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/397731\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane slams Martinez hair pull red card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roy Keane has said “the game’s gone” after Lisandro Martinez was sent off for pulling Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s hair in Manchester United’s 2-1 loss to Leeds on Monday night.<\/p>\n

United were 2-0 down when Martinez was sent off 11 minutes into the second period after a VAR intervention for tugging on Calvert-Lewin’s hair.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Casemiro header wasn’t enough fas the loss dented United’s Champions League hopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fans were furious as the contact appeared minimal, while Calvert-Lewin had also had his hands on Martinez.<\/p>\n

As always, Keane was no-nonsense with his take on the incident on Sky Sports punditry duty.<\/p>\n

He said: “The gane’s gone. Back in my day, that wouldn’t even be a yellow card – and how did the other guy [Calvert-Lewin] not get booked as well?<\/p>\n

“He grabbed Martinez’s face too, and I don’t think he should get off scot-free. Honestly, I can’t imagine playing in this era… I’d probably be sent off every match.”<\/p>\n

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Paul Tierney watches a hair-pulling incident involving Manchester United defender Lisandro Martinez and Leeds United striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin.\u00a0<\/p>\n

United head coach Michael Carrick<\/a> was also furious with the decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe goes to grab his shirt and ends up touching his hair and the bobble comes out and you end up getting a red card for it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not aggressive, there\u2019s no jolt, there\u2019s no tug, no sudden movement. He kind of touches it and glances through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to be careful where the game\u2019s going if we\u2019re giving red cards for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo arms in the face for their first goal and that\u2019s deemed alright. It\u2019s a shocking decision, an absolutely shocking decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane has said “the game’s gone” after Lisandro Martinez was sent off for pulling Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s hair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-397731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}