'Plaiting my kid's hair is more violent' – Ferdinand slams 'absolute joke' Man Utd decision vs Leeds

Male Utd tale Rio Ferdinand is fuming around the referee’s judgment to send of Lisandro Martinez in a 2-1 defeat to Leeds on Monday evening.

Noah Okafor’s affirm within the first 30 minutes of tinker at Old Trafford on Monday gave Leeds a determination commencement before Martinez’s sending out off early in the 2nd half gave the site tourists another benefit.

Brazil global Casemiro did enact on Male Utd one route ago applicable into the gallery via a headed aspiration on 69 minutes yet the Red Satanic forces had to transparent upwards for defeat.

The gigantic chatting time of the match was Martinez’s red card via the occurrence not picked upwards by on-area referee Paul Tierney before VAR interfered.

Martinez was watched to have tempted Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s hair and was sent off for severe manner after Tierney adjudged the occurrence on a pitchside supervise.

Calvert-Lewin asserted he genuinely fingered his hair receiving tempted throughout the occurrence yet the Leeds demonstrator distrusted it was an “depressing” sending out off for the Argentina global.

The Leeds man alerted Sky Sporting assignments: “I don’t become aware, I don’t render the instruction. I genuinely fingered my hair receive tempted, alerted the ref, he earns the verdicts. Somber for him, whether he stood for it or not. I hold zero animosities.”

Previous Male Utd protector Ferdinand was escaped dumbfounded at how VAR and the referee could sight the tug on Calvert-Lewin’s hair as severe manner.

Ferdinand asserted on his YouTube avenue: “The refereeing verdicts in this gallery were an unabbreviated joke. Yeah he executes his hair, it’s fine, it’s not severe manner. How is that reputed as severe manner? I don’t become aware it, it’s not.

“The flailing arm is a collection more of a hard…and if you are participating in case anything severe out of the 2 predicaments, it’s that. And also I’m preeminence Dominic Calvert-Lewin need to be well within his civil liberties, that’s within the instruction, I assume, it need to be fine.

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“I’ve obtained shouldered in my confront lots, not ideal elbows, I’m chatting once your arms, once you are combating and scrambling to receive on the sphere. That’s typical, that’s football – yet confiscating out a hairband the way he did.

“Weaving my youngster’s hair is more severe than doing what I saw on the TV last evening. It’s a joke, I can’t receive my head around what is going on and I’m not resting beneath attempting to defend Male Utd, we squandered the gallery bazaar and square to Leeds.

“Nicely done to Leeds Joined for extravagant the gallery at Old Trafford. Glorious, memorable, memorable win for them, particularly in their crunch to continue to be upwards, yet those verdicts in the gallery were horrible.”

“Vicious Comportment” 🤣🤣🤣

Weaving my offspring hair is more severe than what Martinez did! Ffs pic.twitter.com/WnKNS3co4E

— Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) April 14, 2026