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Referee shows 15 red cards in Turkish soccer match

Xinhua, April 1, 2015 Adjust font size:

Fifteen players were given the red card and sent off the pitch for involvment in a brawl during a Turkish amateur league match in Manisa, Turkey on March 29, local media reported.

In the 89th minute of the game between Yagcilar and Hamzabeyli, a brawl broke out among the players after a foul. The players first argued with each other before the quarrel escalated into fisticuffs.

Referee Yasin Saygili brandished 15 players red cards - seven to Yagcilar players and eight to Hamzabeyli players - before abandoning the game.

Yagcilar was leading the match 1-0 before the fracas began. Endi