Short story where spectators at a sports match shine a mirror at the referee and burn him I read a short story long ago. I can't remember the details but I would like to reread it. What's it's title? The story is a science fiction story concerning some sports match. A referee makes a bad call and then the hats of the spectators reflect sunlight burning him. I also remember the author is pretty famous but I can't remember who. I read it online in a collection of sci-fi stories 4-5 years ago. It's probably 20th century. It might have been Clarke or Asimov.

That would be “A Slight Case of Sunstroke” by Arthur C. Clarke. Like most of Clarke's story, it's a hard SF story (perfectly physically plausible). It's one of two stories by Clarke where someone is killed by a death ray, the other being “Let There Be Light”.

In “A Slight Case of the Sunstroke”, the setting is a football match between the national teams of two fictional Latin American countries, and the spectators have been (unknowing to them) instructed to orient reflective material in such a way as to kill a political opponent of the order giver. In “Let There Be Light”,

> a driver is blinded and loses control of his car.

This story has also been sought on SF&F.