Aaaaahh, so you don't agree on the second para then? :-) :-)

The problem was that First-Class Professional International Footballers, who earn three times as much per week as I do per annum, stopped behaving like First-Class International Professional Footballers and started behaving like 7-year-olds in a local kids' league - they stopped concentrating on doing the important things and started concentrating on the doing the despicable thing they so love to do.

They lost concentration, they got punished for it - exactly what they deserved. And maybe another suitable punishment would be for Arsehole Whinger to dock them all a week's pay and give it to one of the Haiti Earthquake charities. The players would barely notice the loss, but the charity would definitely notice a million or so dropping into their coffers.