Will this madness never end?

Off with his head!

A referee at a provincial amateur football match in northern Brazil showed one of the players the red card, sending him off. The player refused to leave, so the referee showed him his knife…and then fatally stabbed him with it. That's one way of dealing with recalcitrant players, I guess.

But, lest referees in the English Premiere League are considering taking this approach with its more histrionic prima donnas, a little reality check is called for. For members of the crowd took umbrage with his actions, stormed the pitch, and stoned him to death, before decapitating him and leaving his head on a stake in the middle of the field.

And I can well seeing some English football supporters following suit.

Ron Burgundy: “Boy, that escalated quickly…I mean, that really got out of hand fast!”