Funnily enough your tale reminded me of when I was playing, few of us knew the midfielder of our opposition was shagging the ref's wife, 10 minutes in he wiped out one of our players getting a straight red.His sending off really reminded me of when I was about 22 and wanted to get sent off, so I could leave early and go to a gig with my lass... and my punch also didn't connect, making it look stupid and I had to convince the ref I meant violent conduct. The victim deserved it. Got to the gig and the lass was happy. Missed 3 games after, sadly. So did Rodri go to see Busted?
Straight in his car and off he went, he knew where the ref was for the next 80 minutes.
Can't remember if we managed to take advantage of the extra man - unlikely as we were average on a good day.