Separate from fouling, diving and all the other gamesmanship. Many players are sneaky. They smile and are obsequious and deferential to the ref and then get busy with all their cheating. This question is different.

No respect = openly hostile to a ref getting on with his job, airing our grievances in public. Week in week out. Doing it all the time.

just watched Raheem Sterling getting all mouthy with the ref tonight.

Remembering the performance of Ryan Giggs at Selhurst , one of the few occasions i felt like throwing something onto the pitch.

you recall mesut Ozil getting a yellow and showing his back to the ref in contempt.

Ashley cole and his similar hissy fit which was recorded and savoured by all the press and public thereafter.

roy keane...no respect for anybody as far as i can tell..

what others ?

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Eze Peasy at Anfield....

Entire Chelsea and Man Utd squads, who used to crowd the referees en masse when not getting absolutely everything their own way.

The game needs to enact and publish a protocol for this, such that the player involved and his captain are the only ones allowed to speak to the ref; anyone else offering an opinion gets a yellow.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

There's a new rule for this year under which players showing dissent against a decision get a yellow. I think they stopped enforcing it at about halftime during the first round of matches.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

You see very little dissent in rugby or cricket. That suggests it is possible to play a highly competitive and well rewarded sport without constantly disrespecting the officials whose job it is to enforce the rules. The rules are in place, they simply aren't enforced and, yes, I do know that Wilf is a serial offender too (although if the rules were enforced every time he was fouled he would have less to complain about).

Knew it

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I'm not a close follower of cricket, but I think I'm right in saying that Test cricketers who show disrespect to the umpires lose a chunk of their match fee. In rugby, of course, the slightest dissent about a referee's decision is immediately punished, in the first instance, by the free kick or penalty being moved 10 yards (or is it metres?) further up the pitch - which can have the effect of bringing the goalposts to within kickable range, and in football would render a free kick that much more dangerous.