A referee has gone viral for seemingly showing a player a red card on his phone – in an eerie experiment which could change football forever.
Eduardo Varela has become the first referee in history to send a player off with a digital red card in a trial in a Copa Uruguay clash between Nacional and Rentistas.
And the smartphone-like device – which also displays yellow cards – logs every booking, substitution, goal, and penalty for the wider Uruguayan football system.
That allows the administration to keep better track of statistics and, in due course, hopefully relay them to fans and the media whatever
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