Get a sending-off, get a red car

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Red card. Football commentators have never been sticklers for grammar. Paul Merson very rarely uses anything other than the present tense.

Would you please answer the question below? Thank you.

In football, is "to get" the right verb to use with "red card," "sending-off," "booking" and "yellow card"?

Don't you think it's better to use the verbs "to book" and "to send off"?

Thank you.

Paok them's very diffi q's, only sports enthus's should attempt some sort of ans. /they oghta have PhD in English too doncha s'pos'

"Get" is informal and relaxed; your suggested alternatives are more formal. Sport journalism is generally towards the less formal end of the spectrum.

Cen, well put. I was gonna say sunpthin' like that but I wasn't sure

We often say "get" with a participle to mean to undergo, experience or receive something. E.g get killed, hurt, laid, fired, punished, praised, sent off/on/out/in/down/up, married, divorced. It is somewhat informal.

Why? Consider the sentence: "The student gets a warning from the teacher for talking too loud." Same thing here. A yellow card is actually considered a warning, with a bit of a penalty attached. As for the red card, well, change the above sentence to: "The student gets detention from the teacher for talking too loud.", and it's the same thing really.

Booking is sometimes used, but it sounds a bit harsh given that this is actually a game(football). And sending-off and getting a card are different: the first is the result of the latter, so they are not directly interchangeable. Or so I think, but what do I know, as a non-native English speaker?