Possibly, although Jiminez got two very quick yellows against City earlier in the season.
But Chris Baird got sent off for an identical incident a few years ago when Norn Iron were playing Hungary at Windsor Park. Both of his were ridiculously soft as well, the kinda thing you see given and wonder WTF the ref is thinking, to get two of them for (non) fouls within 10 seconds of each other was a ******* piss take. Apparently UEFA/FIFA use video of that game to show refs what to do, and that is used as a CORRECT example.
As far as Martinelli goes, both incidents were yellow cards. So the red is fine for me. He deserved to be booked for being so stupid, twice. The jumping in front of someone as they take a throw is pretty much a stonewall yellow. Yes, people try and delay throw-ins pretty often, but ehhh not quite THAT blatantly. The shoulder barge was a foul and yer man was all set to whip in a cross. Had that been anyone else at any other time people would have said it was a yellow. Just cos he had already commited a daft foul, he should get away with that? Nah, piss off. And the ref played advantage cos Wolves had the ball and were on the attack. A bit unfair (as Martin Keown suggested) for the ref to penalise Wolves cos an Arsenal player was a spanner. Wolves lose the chance to attack on an unprepared Arsenal and Arsenal gain the advantage of not having a man sent off. Yes, Martin, that's a good solution. Moron.
Martinelli was ******* stupid, he deserved to be booked for both, and he was. End of. Both were yellow cards, the only controversy is cos it's such an unusual incident. In this case, I agree with the ref.
That also means Arsenal are now the dirtiest club in PL history ;-) They've had more red cards than anyone else (101, I think, to Everton's 99).
