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Antonio Rattin, the Argentina captain whose controversial sending off in the 1966 World Cup quarter-final against England led to the introduction of red and yellow cards, has died at the age of 89.
Edit: As an eight-year-old at the time I remember it well. Rattin was probably my first footballing ‘bogeyman’, the dark and swarthy ‘other’ who, unlike us, didn’t play by the rules.
The reality, of course, is more nuanced and it’s interesting to see his take on the incident. There’s a FIFA video but I couldn’t upload it for some reason (which I appreciate is not very helpful!)
He was a very good player & his sending off definitely helped England that day. We benefitted from quite a few questionable decisions in that tournament. All were correct though!
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Antonio Rattin RIP on 13:24 - Jul 12 with 2100 views
He was a very good player & his sending off definitely helped England that day. We benefitted from quite a few questionable decisions in that tournament. All were correct though!
How can they be questionable if they were correct?
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Antonio Rattin RIP on 13:30 - Jul 12 with 2085 views
I was there and saw the sending off, Rattin refused to go absolute chaos, nobody new what was going on. I think the game was stopped for at least 15 minutes.
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Antonio Rattin RIP on 14:35 - Jul 12 with 1940 views
Listened to an excellent episode of the ‘It Was What It Was’ football history podcast on this recently. There were a lot of bad fouls from the Argentinians but England committed something like 31 so not exactly squeaky clean. Rattin may have not known he’d been booked as he had no way of communicating with the referee. Also could have been sent off before he was. The ref never explained exactly why he sent him off when he did.
He had Aeros thrown at him by the crowd and it was the first time he’d seen aerated chocolate, which is nice.
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Antonio Rattin RIP on 14:36 - Jul 12 with 1941 views
I was there and saw the sending off, Rattin refused to go absolute chaos, nobody new what was going on. I think the game was stopped for at least 15 minutes.
Rattín himself claimed it was down to the language barrier (the German ref didn’t understand Spanish and Rattin didn’t speak German) and that he didn’t realise he was being sent off. This video (if I’ve pressed all the right buttons) tells the story from the Argentina captain’s point of view …
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Antonio Rattin RIP on 14:47 - Jul 12 with 1897 views
Rattín himself claimed it was down to the language barrier (the German ref didn’t understand Spanish and Rattin didn’t speak German) and that he didn’t realise he was being sent off. This video (if I’ve pressed all the right buttons) tells the story from the Argentina captain’s point of view …
Seeing as most of the nazi war criminals escaped to Spanish speaking countries in South America,I thought Spanish would’ve been taught in the hitler youth.
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Antonio Rattin RIP on 14:50 - Jul 12 with 1879 views
Listened to an excellent episode of the ‘It Was What It Was’ football history podcast on this recently. There were a lot of bad fouls from the Argentinians but England committed something like 31 so not exactly squeaky clean. Rattin may have not known he’d been booked as he had no way of communicating with the referee. Also could have been sent off before he was. The ref never explained exactly why he sent him off when he did.
He had Aeros thrown at him by the crowd and it was the first time he’d seen aerated chocolate, which is nice.
It's a cracking series, isn't it Watford?
Learned so much about Ramsay as well. Such an admirable human being.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
Antonio Rattin RIP on 14:50 - Jul 12 by BrianMcCarthy
It's a cracking series, isn't it Watford?
Learned so much about Ramsay as well. Such an admirable human being.
Yes, learned so much and there’s so much detail outside of the matches themselves about the players. It’s brilliantly researched. The Charltons dad missed the semi-final because he wouldn’t change his shift down t’pit. Players wives weren’t invited to the post-final dinner and they were greeted by a bumper crowd of 6000.
Highly recommend the series on Colombian football through the narco era if you’ve not listened.
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