June 13 : The English Premier League said on Friday that pulling an opponent's hair will not necessarily warrant an automatic red card under changes to refereeing guidelines for next season. The league said in a statement that a red card will apply where hair pulling is carried out with "excessive force and/or brutality", while incidents deemed to be deliberate but without excessive force will be punished with a yellow. The change comes after Manchester United's Lisandro Martinez, Everton's