In 2005, during an English amateur match in the Andover and District Sunday League, referee Andy Wain awarded a penalty. The players surrounded him, furious. He argued back, got increasingly heated, and headbutted one of them. Wain immediately pulled out a red card, showed it to himself, and walked off the pitch. The match was abandoned. He later told the press he 'just lost it' and that sending himself off 'seemed like the right thing to do.'

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