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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK

I don't remember a match where players shout and swear at the referee for the whole match continuously. Even when they do swear at the referee it's not directed at them personally and is in the heat of the moment, it's different to when fans swear at players. No one deserves to be shouted and sworn at for 90 minutes so why should footballers get treated like that? There is uproar if a player swears at the crowd (Ashley Cole last Sunday) but what people were shouting at him was 100x worse than sticking two fingers up.

Oh OK so it's ok for footballers to jostle, abuse, intimidate and otherwise bully officals as long as they don't do it for too long

Sorry but the players are supposed to be professionals and demand to be paid accordingly - as such they need to set the example and if they don't like it they can always get a proper job can't they.