Croatian referee gives yellow card for dying

The notorious Premier League referee Graham Poll, who once famously gave out three yellow cards to a player in the course of a single game, has finally been out-blundered by a fifth division Croatian ref.

It happened when  the unnamed referee gave a yellow card for diving to defender Goran Tunjic, only to realise that Tunjic had actually collapsed and died of a heart attack.
 
Tunjic, a 32-year-old defender for Croatian side Mladostm, toppled to the ground after being tackled in the 35th minute of a match against local rivals Hrvatski Sokola. The ref had specifically gone to each team before the game, warning that he would show short shrift to anyone play-acting.

Seeing Tunjic go to ground, despite there being no contact in the tackle, he strode over and promptly waved a yellow card over the prone player, to the initial delight of the Sokola supporters.
 
However, he quickly realised his mistake and called for stretchers. Tunjic was then taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. "Doctors tried to help him but there was nothing they could do," a club spokesman said of the player, who had no previous medical problems. "He just fell dead on the spot."

The fifth division match was then abandoned, leaving the score at 0-0. ·