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Jordan Harvey swears that Brek Sheadidn’t deserve to get ejected for using some four-letter words with an official.

“For me, that’s never a red card,” Harvey, the Vancouver Whitecaps’ veteran defender, said Wednesday after practice at UBC when asked about forward/midfielder newcomer Shea getting thrown out in the 69th minute of Saturday’s 2-0 loss to Toronto FC for directing some apparent salty language toward referee Ismail Elfath.

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“If we were to actually record what is said on the field — both sides — I don’t think we’d be finishing with enough players.

“It (the game against Toronto FC) is a rivalry game, an emotional game. As a referee, you’d like to think he’d take some of that out of it and understand that part of it. But, then again, we need to make sure that we aren’t in those positions.

“We need to take total responsibility for our actions on the field, but, at the same time, put things in perspective.”