Sentence examples for a referee to protest from inspiring English sources

Running at a referee to protest a call or a noncall.

Players from the Croatian team swarmed the referee to protest, but in vain; the referee gave the defender, Dejan Lovren, a yellow card and awarded the Brazilians a penalty kick.

Watching a Devils game on television this season, I saw Ftorek throw a bench on the ice to protest a referee's judgment.

There was no delegation sent off in protest, as the Russians did some time later, dispatching a disgruntled group to the American Embassy to protest a referee's call in the U.S. victory over Russia in hockey.

Not long before Ftorek was fired, he was suspended for one game for throwing part of the Devils' bench on the ice to protest a referee's call.

The Devils prevailed with Larry Robinson acting as head coach in place of Robbie Ftorek, who was serving a one-game suspension for throwing a bench onto the ice at Detroit to protest the referee's failure to penalize a Red Wing.

It took only seconds for the Napoli players to protest to referee Luca Banti.

He and Souness had visited the referee Mark Halsey at half-time to protest about the Whittle right arm but the damage was done.

But soon after Martin turned and shot home from 12 yards at the near post to get Millwall back in the game, Holloway was ordered off by referee Darren Deadman as he continued to protest to the fourth official.

There were no scuffles with mascots, no obscene gestures to fans, no chicken dances to taunt opponents and no early exits in anger to protest the referees' calls.

At a North Carolina State men's basketball game last month, the former Wolfpack stars Tom Gugliotta and Chris Corchiani were ejected from the arena — at the request of a referee — for protesting the officials' calls.