But in recent years, there’s no doubt the abuse in football surrounding those involved in the game has intensified. Players, ...

Unusually, there was no post-match press conference with Liverpool manager ... the Football Association (FA) deals with disciplinary matters. The correct procedure is that the match referee ...

FIFA refereeing chief Pierluigi Collina has revealed it is more difficult than ever before to be a football ... are clubs and managers casting doubt over the integrity of referees - insinuating ...

Lyon manager Paulo Fonseca could be handed a huge SEVEN-MONTH ban after physically confronting a referee ... I shouldn't do that. Football makes us do bad gestures. The match was very difficult.

"I remember saying to Rio once: 'Go and tell your f***ing manager to f*** off ... As is the nature of being a referee, Clattenburg found himself on the receiving end of similar words he had ...

Sitting on his return flight to Ljubljana, his mission accomplished, Slavko Vincic might have wondered if this is as close as a 45-year-old Slovenian football referee can come to feeling like ...

Referees faced criticism for inconsistent interpretations of fouls. As a result, the disparity between Italian officials and their European counterparts became a central talking point ... Rocchi and ...