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MARK CLATTENBURG: Please, if you attend a game this weekend, show respect to the referee... it feels as if English football is waiting for its first death with the threats made to grassroots officials

Before the international break, we saw one of the greatest games in Premier League history: Chelsea 4, Manchester City 4. A beautiful spectacle, but one marred by the ugly finale of Mauricio Pochettino storming on to the pitch at full-time to abuse Anthony Taylor. It trickles from the top down.

The difference is at grassroots level. There are no cameras or stewards there to make that angry bloke think twice about what he will do once he's approached you.

It is a situation that has spiralled out of control at the grassroots level of our game and a subject long overdue being at the forefront of football’s mammoth media coverage.