Even reduced to 10 units, Everton ended up winning the match, 1-0against Ruben Amorim’s team, but such an unusual episode is not new in the English League, something similar having happened in 2008.
Senegalese Idrissa Gueye, from Everton, became, this Monday, the fourth footballer to be sent off in the English Football League for attacking a teammate, something that has not happened since 2008.
Em Old Trafford, Gueye, 36 years old, was shown red in the 13th minute for slapping Michael Keane, his teammate and Liverpool center back, in the face.
It all happened after a mistake by the English player in a defensive move, with the Senegalese international immediately showing his dissatisfaction, and then ending up attacking.
Even reduced to 10 units, Everton ended up winning the match, 1-0against Ruben Amorim’s team, but such an unusual episode is not new in the English League, something similar having happened in 2008.
The last attack took place in 2008
At the time, it was Jamaican Ricardo Fuller, at Stoke Cityafter his team conceded a goal against West Ham, who also used the snap to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with Andy Griffin.
According to arbitration laws, the The match referee is obliged to show a red card to a player who has displayed violent behavior with an opponent or with a teammate.
For this reason, in 2005, Newcastle United were suddenly reduced to nine players when, in a match with Aston Villa, former English internationals Lee Bowyer and David Batty suddenly started punching and kicking, with torn shirts and some blood in the mix.
Similar attacks in Brazil and Türkiye
However, the unusual thing about attacking a teammate during a match is not a ‘monopoly’ of the Premier League, as situations like this have already happened recently in Brazil and also in Türkiye, with a Portuguese one in the mix, and already in 2025.
In January, in a Kayserispor match, Cameroonian Stephane Bahoken did not like the way Miguel Cardoso scored a free-kickending up first trying to headbutt the Portuguese midfielder and then resorting to snapping. He ended up expelled.
In Brazil, in 2009, still far from the Abel Ferreira ‘era’, the Palmeiras lost two players due to red during the breakwhen defender Mauricio, who would later represent Sporting, and Obina also got involved in punches and kicks on the way to the locker room.
