{"id":551803,"date":"2026-07-16T00:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551803\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T00:18:16","slug":"argentina-wanted-harry-kane-sent-off-for-breaking-new-world-cup-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551803\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Wanted Harry Kane Sent Off For Breaking New World Cup Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC presenter Mark Chapman clarified that Harry Kane managed to avoid a straight red card for covering his mouth in a confrontational situation because he was speaking to the game&#8217;s referee.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina midfielder Leandro Paredes immediately brought the situation to the attention of the referee after an incident where Elliot Anderson received a yellow card for a robust challenge on Lionel Messi, who had just skipped by England captain Kane.<\/p>\n<p>\n        Recommended\n    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a :href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/world-cup\/article.url\" :title=\"article.title\" :aria-label=\"article.title\" class=\"not-prose col-span-2 md:col-span-1 ga-event\" data-category=\"Recommended Article Tracker\" data-action=\"click\" :data-label=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/world-cup\/article.url\" :data-value=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/world-cup\/article.url\"><\/p>\n<p>                                            <img class=\"aspect-video\" width=\"130\" height=\"73\" :src=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/world-cup\/article.image\" :alt=\"'Image for: ' + article.title\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, we saw earlier on in the tournament Paraguayan midfielder and former Newcastle United player Miguel Almiron was sent off for covering his mouth in a situation like this one, but the crucial difference is he was speaking to a Turkish player.<\/p>\n<p>The rule was introduced to prevent players from obscuring potentially discriminatory language to opposition players.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina Wanted Harry Kane Sent Off For Breaking New World Cup Rule<\/p>\n<p>It had been an incredibly tense first-half in which neither side registered a shot on target, the first time at a World Cup this has happened since the 1966 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Former England and Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart was incredibly frustrated with the actions of Paredes.<\/p>\n<p>Pathetic, he was talking to the referee, he was trying to be clear because it is so difficult to communicate out there.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Kane is just trying to have a personal conversation with the referee there.<\/p>\n<p>I get it of course they&#8217;re going to do anything they can to win this game, you&#8217;re going to go after the letter of the law and you see that but come on just win the game by scoring more goals.<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney was also not in favour of Parades&#8217; antics.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think it is just ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/world-cup\/england-argentina-national-anthems-bbc-659681\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Viewers Made Baffling Error During Complaints About England Anthem Vs Argentina<\/a><br \/>\nSEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balls.ie\/football\/jude-bellingham-irish-links-535652\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Irish Heritage of England&#8217;s World Cup Superstar Jude Bellingham<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC presenter Mark Chapman clarified that Harry Kane managed to avoid a straight red card for covering his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[233526,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-551803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-harry-kane-england","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551803","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=551803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}