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Getafe forward Greenwood has red card SCRAPPED as RFEF reject ref claims

Getafe forward Mason Greenwood has had his red card rescinded after his dismissal in defeat at home to Rayo Vallecano.

Greenwood, on-loan from Manchester United, was sent off for abusing ref Jorge Figueroa Vazquez. However, it's now been confirmed Greenwood never took verbal aim at the match official.

The RFEF have since confirmed Greenwood's words and also announced his red card and subsequent suspension has been scrapped.

Their statement read:

"The task of this disciplinary body is not to re-referee the matches, without determining, where appropriate, the existence of a manifest material error in the referee's description of the action. As has been said here, only proof of an error of this type can distort the assessment made by the referee and, consequently, the veracity of what was recorded in the minutes.

“The repeated viewing of the images, in fact, has allowed this Committee to conclude, beyond any doubt, that the action that led to the expulsion did not occur as described by the referee and, ultimately, prove the material error manifest in the referee's report. These images demonstrate that the player actually said “One, two, three, four, f***."

Greenwood's words were referring to the amount of kicks he had received from Rayo players and had nothing to do with Figueroa Vazquez.

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