YOU WATT, MATE?

We’ve all probably said something to a referee we regret – but for Sanchez Watt, just giving his name was enough to earn a red card.

The ex-arsenal frontman was in action for Hemel Hempstead when referee Dean Hulme attempted to book him for kicking the ball away.

“It was just mad,” Watt laughs as he talks to FFT. “The ball went out of play for a corner, but the ref gave a goal-kick. As the ball came to me, I just touched it a bit.

“He came sprinting over towards me and asked for my name, so I replied, ‘Watt’. I started to jog back into position and he asked me again, so I told him. He then shouted, ‘I’ll ask you one more time’, and that’s when he got out the red card.”

Having mistakenly thought that Watt was saying ‘What?’ in an act of dissent, the referee was soon informed of his faux pas and the red was changed to a yellow.

“He looked really embarrassed,” says Watt. “He had to run over and tell the two managers, and you could see everyone was laughing their heads off!”