He likes the colour red

calls including red cards

In general, his card policy was good. He just reacted on what occured in front of him but no discussion that he could have avoided that. I did not see serious words to the players, I just noticed him cautioning, cautioning and cautioning.. Apart from some weaknesses in midfield duels, the red cards were all right. The first was for Whittaker who - after having been fouled - stood up and threw the ball directly and with purpose in his opponent's face. Clear red card. The second straight red, this time against Bougherra, was for an ellbow foul in the air which counts as violent conduct, this red was correct as well and very well detected. The last red was a second yellow and was correct, too. It was again an ellbow conduct but not such a hard one as Bougherra commited. Anyway, Ricardinho was correctly sent off.

No CL for Bezborodov

As he stayed in First Group that means that we will not see him in a CL match this year even though we still do not know whether First Group referees are allowed to get CL matches or not.