Sentence examples for lenient yellow from inspiring English sources
They could easily have been reduced to 10 men for the final 30 minutes when Barkley caught Henderson's ankle with a dangerous and reckless tackle but the referee, Mike Dean, opted for a lenient yellow.
A yellow card seems lenient yet a red probably too harsh.
I know the rules very well but the referee was quite lenient and only gave me a yellow card".
A yellow card was a very lenient punishment.
Those that like to buy the bookings in this fixture (Sporting Index go 50-54) will be disappointed to know that the lenient Alan Wiley (only one red and 52 yellow cards in 20 matches this season) is in charge.
By contast, Steve Bennett's decision, three minutes later, not to give Paul Scholes a second yellow card for pulling back Wilson Palacios was scandalously lenient.
To be fair it was more of a backwards head-push, triggered in the lead-up to an England free-kick, but arguably the yellow card it earned from the referee was too lenient.
It was after Rodriguez was shown a yellow card for a foul on Hulk by the extraordinarily lenient referee Carlos Velasco Carballo that Brazil scored the goal that effectively sent them into the last four.
Some felt the yellow card handed to him against Ross County in their league opener was too lenient.
Britain looks particularly lenient.
