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On May 6, 2009, when Rosenborg Ballklub received Fredrikstad F.K. during the seventh round of the Norwegian First Division, the referee Per Ivar Staberg left the traditional coin used to determine which team takes first in his locker room. Instead of returning to the dressing room and delaying the start of the match, Staberg had an original idea: to invite the two captains, Mikael Dorsin and Hans Erik Ramberg, to play the traditional children’s game “rock, paper, scissors” to determine the winner. This proved to be entertaining for the 15,000 spectators, who had fun seeing how Ramberg needed three attempts (in the first two they had both chosen the same option) to win their right to draw first.

Another clueless ref, Oscar Sequeira, had to expel the Paraguayan Celso Ayala of CA River Plate vocally on August 31, 1997, a day in which the “millionaire” team lost at home, 1-3, to CA Rosario Central in the Argentine League. Why? Because he had forgotten his red card in the wardrobe. The Paraguayan defender took it all in stride: “Actually, I did not understand anything; they red-carded me without taking out the red card!” he commented after the game with a smile.