Opinion | Players and coaches are becoming more disruptive and disrespectful of decisions made by referees if they don’t suit them. Refs need to man up. HangingJudge FootballFever
I don’t think there is any doubt that players and coaches are becoming more disruptive and disrespectful of decisions made by referees if they don’t suit them.Well, it seems that the first country to try to tackle this cancer in our game is Germany.
While critics claim referees are losing independence and any margin of personal judgement, supporters see football’s integrity as being in danger. In recent months, German amateur football entered the headlines after a spate of severe attacks on referees, several of whom needed medical treatment or had to be taken to hospital.
The fierce body-check by Frankfurt defender David Abraham against Freiburg coach Christian Streich might have been one of the trigger points. Statistics show that the number of yellow cards grew from 3.6 to 5.1 from the completed 17 match days of the first half of the season to the beginning of the second half.
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