{"id":8708,"date":"2011-04-08T08:52:51","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2011-04-08T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T12:53:12","slug":"swearing-in-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/swearing-in-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Swearing in soccer? Gasp! Shock! Horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/index.php\/site\/article\/10412\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duleep Allirajah<\/a> wonders how the Football Association has managed to avoid hearing what soccer players say on the pitch until now:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rooney swore? So f***ing what<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Those fretting over the footballer\u2019s anglo-saxon turn of phrase have clearly never been to a match before.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney\u2019s angry outburst was curious. What did it mean? Who was he addressing? In appearing to pick a fight with a TV camera, it immediately struck me as an homage to Robert De Niro\u2019s famous \u2018You talking to me?\u2019 scene in <em>Taxi Driver<\/em>. But maybe I\u2019m reading too much into it.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by his club, the player said: \u2018Emotions were running high, and on reflection my heat-of-the-moment reaction was inappropriate. It was not aimed at anyone in particular.\u2019 Maybe he was railing against his inner demons. Maybe there is no deeper meaning. Maybe it was a release of pent-up frustration after months of domestic strife and poor goal-scoring form.<\/p>\n<p>But enough of my speculative interpretation, it\u2019s the Football Association\u2019s response that we should really be bothered about. The FA has banned Rooney for two matches for using \u2018offensive, insulting and\/or abusive language\u2019. You don\u2019t need to be a lipreader to work out that footballers swear quite a lot; every Saturday you\u2019ll find them effing and blinding like proverbial troopers. But while disciplinary action for abusing match officials is nothing new, a ban for swearing <em>per se<\/em> is quite unprecedented. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duleep Allirajah wonders how the Football Association has managed to avoid hearing what soccer players say on the pitch until now: Rooney swore? So f***ing what Those fretting over the footballer\u2019s anglo-saxon turn of phrase have clearly never been to a match before. Wayne Rooney\u2019s angry outburst was curious. What did it mean? Who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,20],"tags":[52,400],"class_list":["post-8708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-soccer","tag-absurd","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2gs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8708\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}