In a game of faux-injury theatrics and crowd hooliganism, a fart hardly seems like a footballing crime. 
 
 But one Swedish player's been pinged with a red card for "unsportsmanlike behaviour", after letting one rip during a club match on Friday. 
 
 Adam Lindin Ljungkvist said he "had a bit of a tummy upset" while playing for Pershagen SK, and "let off a fart" in the last minute of the game, Aftonbladet reported. 
 
 "The referee showed me a yellow card, then followed up with red ... I was pretty angry with the referee, and I could not quite believe what had happened," the 25-year-old said, according to a translation by Vice. 
 
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 "I can only surmise that he thinks I did it up against an opponent, but to provoke someone with a fart would be pretty bizarre. I just did a perfectly innocent fart, and got sent off for it. The referee said that it was unsportsmanlike behaviour." 
 
 Pershagen SK lost the match 5-2, and despite conceding the loss was imminent when he was sent off, Ljungkvist said the referee made a "crappy judgment". 
 
 "I can only laugh about it. This has to be unprecedented, surely. I've never heard of anyone who has been sent off for doing a fart." 
 
 Speaking to Länstidningen Södertälje, Ljungkvist added: "I don't get it but maybe he thought I farted in my hand and threw the fart at him. But I did not." 
 
 Referee Dany Kako told Länstidningen Södertälje he took the fart as a "deliberate provocation". 
 
 "He did it on purpose and it was inappropriate." 
 
 In a post on Facebook, written in Swedish, Ljungkvist's team said: "It was a crappy game, it was a crappy judgment, and that being said, we don't care what other people think about this!! Let's go!" 

 • Defender Adam Lindin Ljungkvist sent off for breaking wind • Referee called it ‘unsportsmanlike’ and ‘deliberate provocation’ 
 
 A Swedish footballer has hit out after being sent off for breaking wind during a match – with the referee accusing him of “deliberate provocation” and “unsportsmanlike behaviour”. 
 
 Adam Lindin Ljungkvist, who was playing at left-back in the match between Järna SK’s reserve team and Pershagen SK, was shown a second yellow card late on in what local media called “bizarre circumstances”. 
 
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 “I had a bad stomach, so I simply let go,” the 25-year-old told Länstidningen Södertälje. “Then I received two yellow cards and then red. Yes, I was shocked, it’s the strangest thing I have ever experienced in football. 
 
 “I asked the referee, ‘What, am I not allowed to break wind a little?’ ‘No,’ he replied … I don’t get it but maybe he thought I farted in my hand and threw the fart at him. But I did not.” 
 
 Opposition striker Kristoffer Linde told the paper: “I was standing a good distance away but I heard the fart loud and clear. It’s the strangest thing I’ve seen on a pitch, and I’ve been playing football since I was eight years old.” 
 
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 The referee, Dany Kako, confirmed that Ljungkvist had received the second yellow card for breaking wind, explaining: “I perceived it as deliberate provocation. He did it on purpose and it was inappropriate. Therefore, he received a yellow card.” 
 
 Ljungkvist told Aftonbladet: “To provoke anyone with a fart is not particularly smart or normal. It’s nonsense – I just broke wind and got a red card. I spoke to the referee afterwards, I was annoyed, but there were no bad words. I just said he was a buffoon.” 
 
 Kako said he had experienced similar incidents before. “Once there was a player who stood and peed next to the pitch. I showed him a yellow card, too.”
– In what local media described as "bizarre circumstances," a Swedish soccer player ended up being ousted from a match Friday for the "unsportsmanlike behavior" of breaking wind, the Guardian reports. Adam Lindin Ljungkvist, a 25-year-old player for Pershagens SK, tells a Swedish media outlet he had a "bad stomach" during the match against Jarna SK, so "I simply let go," prompting the ref to show him a yellow card, his second, followed up with red. "I asked the referee, 'What, am I not allowed to break wind a little?' 'No,' he replied. … I don't get it, but maybe he thought I farted in my hand and threw the fart at him. But I did not." The ref, for his part, says he viewed the in-air infraction as a "deliberate provocation," though Ljungkvist doesn't know why anyone in his right mind would do such a thing on the field. "To provoke anyone with a fart is not particularly smart or normal," he tells a Swedish newspaper. "It's nonsense—I just broke wind and got a red card." His team lost 5-2, per Stuff, and a Facebook post in Swedish by his team shows they thought the whole thing was nonsense, too. Translated, it reads: "It was a crappy game, it was a crappy judgment, and that being said, we don't care what other people think about this!" (Farting was the cause of a recent bar brawl in Florida.)