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They come down into the tunnel at halftime.

You can see Spalletti saying, hey, they're waiting for you as the referee goes off the pitch.

Comoli has to be physically restrained.

They confront and insult him.

I have a serious problem with that.

I hope they both get... You can be as angry as you want after the game.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and if you wanted to be mean, you could also bring up what Chiellini was like as a player, which was very much in line with Bastoni.

Referee chief Gianluca Rocchi apologised for the mistake the next day.

He said he's mortified.

But he did say something which I thought was very relevant.

We are not being helped by the players or the managers.

Because every time we go on the pitch, they're out there trying to con us.

I think that's a really valid point.

I think that's something to think about going forward to try to resolve this.

And we're going to break this on further on the Gavin Jules Podcast.

All right, Jules, I don't want to moralize.

My views over this have kind of evolved over the years.

I remember talking to Pierluigi Colina years ago when I did the book with Gianluca Vialli, his first book.

when he said, if you go onto the pitch, as a professional footballer, I, the referee, is something that you need to play professionally.