“My 67-year-old mother-in-law can see it from the club deck. There’s an official standing right there and you’re asking me why I’m having a go at the fourth official? … (The fourth referee) sendsme off for saying, ‘The referee’s having a fricking stinker?’ Not F-bomb. Fricking. F-r-i-c-k-i-n-g. Just in case there was a language breakdown. To send me off was an absolute amateur decision.That’s why I’m really upset.”

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