I think the soccer send off was Vinny Jones whilst playing for Leeds.

Ref blew whistle, Jones sprinted toward the two players on the centre spot and did a two footed, studs first lunge at the ball and missed.

Ref red carded him.

Players can also be sent off whilst on the subs bench. This happened a few years ago in an academy match between Featherstone & Warrington when one of Warrington's subs ran on to the pitch to join in a brawl. The offocials took some stick from some Featherstone fans after the game because Warrington had 13 players on the pitch for the whole game.

as an aside I witnessed the quickest ever interchange.

A player was interchanged within seconds of the whistle starting the game.

How would that be recorded? - 1 min

jones never got sent off for leeds. i think he only got booked a couple of times

Another quick sending off was Jason Smith for Hull FC against Halifax in our first game at the KC Stadium. Smith was sent off for a high tackle (the second tackle of the game). Steve Ganson stopped the clock on 22 seconds.

Yeah the one referred to was just a booking, although the circumstances were correct.

Might be wrong but think it was Barrow, they kicked off we drove ball in, flying elbow to the head and the ref had the card out before our player had it the ground.

There is something in my memory says he never got a card while playing for Leeds.

Don't think he ever got sent off for Leeds but definitely got a few bookings.

Think the incident we are trying to recall is from either the 91-92, or 92-93 football league season. I believe Vinny Jones was red-carded after a few seconds whilst playing for Sheffield United against Man City at Maine Road.

I cant find anything about Vinnie Jones red card after a few seconds but I found this

"Jones was sent off a total of 12 times in his career, a record second only to Manchester United's Roy Keane with 13. He does however hold the record for the quickest-ever booking, for a foul on Dane Whitehouse after just THREE seconds of Chelsea's League game against Sheffield United in 1992. "

We do have an Other Sports forum for discussing association football and other other sports.

of course, there is always the 'urban myth' that a footballer once got sent for after 1sec. After the ref blew the whistle to start the game, he turned round and said "f****** ell ref, that was loud" and got carded for swearing

Prob not true, but bloody funny

Steve Hampson against the Kiwis at Elland Road springs to mind as a fairly early bath.