This is not the headline to an article from The Onion. This is a true and gloriously real thing that happened in a Swedish soccer game on Wednesday. Swedish footballer Adam Lindin Ljungkvist, a left-back for Pershagen SK, was shown his second yellow card for what the referee deemed was an unsportsmanlike breaking of wind.
Apparently the local media was referring to it as a “bizarre circumstance” but let’s be very clear about this: he was sent off the pitch for farting. It only gets better from there, unfolding in the media as if it were pulled directly from a Monty Python sketch.