Footballers are no strangers to receiving verbal abuse from their own fanbase when things aren’t going well and the expectation is for them to shut up and take it. In the eyes of many, their sky-high wages give fans a free pass to verbally attack anybody in the squad they feel is not performing to their standards. It’s a weekly occurence and something that has now firmly been embedded in the fabric of modern-day football. ‘Shut up and dribble’ in the infamous words of Laura Ingraham. Most footballers have been able to bite their tongue, largely out of fear of recrimination from their own fanba…
