It’s generally accepted that players should show the referee total respect, but if you ever hear the audio from a game then you’ll know that that they’ll all happily swear at each other.
It means that you really need to go the extra mile to get a yellow card for dissent, so you have to wonder what Zlatan said here:
A straight red card for Zlatan Ibrahimovic! ?
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Refs will often show a red if their impartiality is questioned or perhaps if something particularly vile is said about a family member, but Zlatan does a fine job of playing innocent here.
Hopefully a transcript does come out from this, as it would be fascinating to know what was said.
Shame, Ion calls himself a professional. Ibrahimovic is 40 years old and has not yet learned the culture, shame