Chris Innes is fighting for the honour of the world’s dumbest player as he trudged to the dressing room after being sent off for a second yellow card – although he had NOT already been booked.

The St Mirren defender received his marching orders from referee Steve Conroy after he gave away a penalty by handling in the box in the 3-1 defeat at Celtic. Innes did not bat an eyelid as Conroy reached into his pocket to issue a caution… followed by a red card.

His team-mates convinced the ref that Innes should still be on the pitch. He rushed back out in time to see keeper Paul Gallagher save the resulting spot-kick and deny Scott McDonald a hat-trick.

Gallacher said: “I’d never seen anything like that in my life. It was a weird couple of minutes. To be fair, the ref held his hands up and admitted it was his error.

“He quickly changed his decision… but Chris was well off the park by then. It was freezing out there so I don’t blame him.”

Innes is not only daft, afraid of the cold, he is just pure unlucky. He had earlier already deflected a McDonald shot into the net after 39 minutes.