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In the heat of the moment, in a sport contested at the very top level by ultra-competitive, elite players, I can understand Haaland's immediate reaction and frustration. That isn't saying I think it is acceptable or should go unchallenged, but I can see how it happened. However, he then went...

None of that changes anything, if we genuinely want to change behaviour, rather than simply react to it. I lost count how many managers were serving touchline bans this weekend just gone. If we want to have a re-set, then after his Newcastle outburst Arteta should have been informed that...

But that's the problem isn't it? It's not panto; it's real people with real lives outside of football. When Arteta is foaming at the mouth and ranting about decisions being "embarrassing" and "a disgrace" etc, the ref(s) involved probably have kids who have to go to school on Monday and put up...

100% this. I posted on the thread announcing the officials for the Brentford game (where the pile-on had started even before the match, ffs) that ref-baiting has become utterly toxic. Just in the past few weeks there have been pages and pages of posts about Dunk's red card, the Wissa thing, the...

Apart from MMA participants, obvs. And professional boxers