Quote Originally Posted by Kikó View Post
It's not a surprise that referees are a dying breed when you've got managers basically calling them out at the top of the game. Why get into a profession that pays shit and you get abused? Get over it Arteta you knobhead.
Happens throughout football from the highest level down to under 8s and is probably the biggest scourge on it as a sport.

There's no respect for the referee culturally built into the game whatsoever, just forlorn top-down 'respect' campaigns. In this respect I think it lags behind every other sport I can think of.