Sentence:  Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to <WSD>issue</WSD> a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet's team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To deliver by authority.