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Latin behaviour has no place in British football - Liverpool great Souness

Liverpool great Graeme Souness has criticised modern day players and their role in placing pressure in match officials.

Souness was very critical of Chelsea players for their role in convincing referee Bjorn Kuipers to show Paris Saint-Germain's Zlatan Ibrahimovic a red card in the Champions League last-16 encounter and blamed Latin players for bringing the culture to the British football.

Souness has labeled the behaviour of crowding and rushing referees as 'totally unacceptable'.

"There have been wonderful South American and Latin players come to this country but they bring with them that tactic," Souness told Sky Sports.

"I've worked in Latin countries, I've played in one. It was completely foreign to me when I went there in the '80s and witnessed it close up. They thought it was good play if you got someone else in trouble or someone booked.

"That is something we can do without. It is not the British way of doing things and it's creeping into our game, which is, I find, totally unacceptable."

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