CHRIS DUNLAVY recalls when passion reached boiling point and trouble brewed

Paolo Di Canio

VERBAL abuse is as much a part of football as woeful England teams, a bad start for Everton or a Sam Allardyce long ball.
There’s the whereabouts of your wife, the paternity of your kids, the cuisine in your native land (just ask Park Ji Sung) – absolutely nothing is sacred when it comes to terrace taunts.

In the main, players and managers have learned to take it stoically by pretending that they are focusing on the job when really they are boiling with rage.
Mind you, there are ...