It's ok to abuse the referee..

Well isn’t it? Harry Kewell seems to do it and get away with saying explicates and verbally abusing and intimidating the referee.

NO NO NO! This is wrong, totally unacceptable and we are sending the completely wrong message to our kids.

I particularly can’t stand Australian sport in this regard with an incident like this Harry Kewell abuse fiasco. OK, he was upset, feeling remorseful and regretting the words he may have had to the referee post match.

It didn’t just look like a quiet word but an intimidating yelling match and the referee was visibly retreating. And what does Harry get punished with – nothing!

He might have a clean record, it might be out of character, but if a Brazilian player did this or an opponent of Australia, we would all be kicking and screaming and demanding that player be suspended for at least a match.

You can hear the talkback radio jocks now fielding calls about how unfair this is to Australia and this player acted un-Australian… In Harry’s case we’d hear all the empathy calls and why would FIFA do this, it’s our only chance…

Well FIFA, you got it wrong. You were too lenient and YOU should have made an example out of Harry Kewell.

I don’t care if he is Australian. I don’t care if he has a clean record. Rules are rules, referees are to be respected and not to be ABUSED like this.

Consider yourself very lucky, and consider yourself a hero Harry because now we will see kids emulate this week in and week out and less people will want to referee and those who do will be abused, possibly attacked, because Harry Kewell did it, so why can’t I?