When Declan Rice screamed at Jesus Gil Manzano, “You have probably been f****** paid”, the Spanish referee should have had a reply at the ready.
“Yes, but not nearly f****** enough to have to deal with spoilt professional footballers.”
Rice is an engaging, normally humble, down-to-earth character. And one hell of a football player. But UEFA must make an example of him. As he walked away from Manzano, who had a pretty decent game as West Ham United went out of the Europa League in Frankfurt on Thursday, Rice said, “F****** corruption”.
