Whenever you give out your card, the career pros all agree, you should always ask for one in return.

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Cole received the first red card of his career for his tackle on Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny and Hodgson defended his player, insisting the challenge looked worse than it was.

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Reina had produced two key earlier saves to help maintain Liverpool's lead as the Reds had defended with discipline and determination to neutralise Arsenal after Cole had received the first red card of his career.

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As soon as you have a card, it makes the career real.

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The main take-away: some career professionals think you should put your photo on your card, so people can remember you.

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And it basically ruined her career inasmuch that it--they took away her cabaret card, her right to sing in New York, anywhere with a liquor license, because--basically, because of singing that song.

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Balotelli's first Premier League goals in November 2010 were overshadowed by a red card, the first of four he would go on to receive during his City career.

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Fastow dusted off an obscure financial tool previously used to sell credit-card receivables to separately capitalized funds (he'd probably learned about it earlier in his career at Continental Bank in Chicago) and morphed it into the infamous LJM, Chewco and Raptor partnerships.

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His international career came to a controversial end when he failed to dismiss Croatia defender Josip Simunic after showing him a second yellow card in the game against Australia, and only sent him off after showing him a third.

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