I was watching my boy at football training on Thursday and got talking to a fellow dad who is a big rugby fan/coach. Talking about dissent he just laughed and said if a player spoke in a disrespectful way his team already start walking back 10 yards as they know 100% they will be pinged for it. If you swear at a ref the player starts walking off before the ref sends him off - his team mates will moan about this to the player in question, not at the ref because they know what happens if they moan at the ref.
Football can learn a lot from other sports and it needs to before it chokes itself to death with its own bad behaviour.
Friend of mine plays reasonable standard rugby. Last season a team mate argued with the referee and the club suspended him for 4 games and told him that a repeat would see him on his bike.
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