Two red cards for hair-pulls against rival with ankle-length hair

A Concacaf Nations League match was blighted by two late red cards for pulling the ankle-length hair of an opponent.

Aedan Scipio only came off the bench for the final 21 minutes of Anguilla's match against Antigua and Barbuda.

His team were already 5-0 down by the time he entered the pitch but his cameo stole the limelight for the wrong reasons.

Scipio's hair is so long that, when tied back, it is only a few inches off the ground and it immediately became the target of fouls from his rivals.

Keon Greene was the first Antigua and Barbuda player to yank Scipio back by grabbing his long hair, after he was dispossessed of the ball. He was sent off in the 71st minute.

But in stoppage time, Scipio was again dragged backwards -- this time, he was taken off his feet -- after his hair was grabbed by Shalon Knight. This time it prompted an angrier reaction from Scipio, and Knight was swiftly given a straight red too.

Despite Antigua and Barbuda ending the game with nine men, they held onto their 5-0 lead to win.

Scipio's Anguilla sit second-bottom of FIFA's official international rankings. At 210th, only San Marino are ranked lower.

Antigua and Barbuda are ranked 163rd. Jacques Passy's team won in League C, Group B of the Concacaf Nations League at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, their home ground, on Sunday.