{"id":291974,"date":"2023-09-25T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=291974"},"modified":"2023-09-25T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:03:59","slug":"jermaine-jenas-in-x-rated-blast-at-arsenal-ref-despite-fronting-respect-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/soccer\/jermaine-jenas-in-x-rated-blast-at-arsenal-ref-despite-fronting-respect-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Jermaine Jenas in X-rated blast at Arsenal ref \u2013 despite fronting respect video"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jermaine Jenas has come under fire after posting a foul-mouthed tweet about the referee during Tottenham's clash with Arsenal on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The former Spurs midfielder appeared to take issue with the decision to award Arsenal a penalty in the second half and vented his anger on X (formerly Twitter). He wrote: "Complete s***house of a referee! They're all ruining the our [sic] game."<\/p>\n
He was immediately labelled a hypocrite when fans were reminded of the fact he recently fronted a campaign calling on players and supporters at all levels of the game to stop abusing referees. He was also slammed by RefSupportUK, a charity dedicated to independent training, support and development of referees across the country.<\/p>\n
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Responding to Jenas' post, the charity replied: "This is a disgraceful tweet and you should be ashamed. Your tweet encourages on line abuse of referees and considering your role on TV your employers need to give their head a wobble. Remember Anthony Taylor and his family were attacked at an airport because of antics such as yours."<\/p>\n
Many supporters agreed, with one writing: "Yeah this is poor of Jermaine. Makes you look like a right hypocrite." A second said: "Loool proves Jenas is a complete w***er," while a third added: "Football tribalism in one tweet."<\/p>\n
Sum Jermaine Jenas up in one word in the comments section below.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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The incident Jenas was complaining about was Rob Jones' decision to award Arsenal a penalty after Cristian Romero handled in the box. The call wasn't super <\/i>controversial, but a lengthy VAR check suggested it could have gone either way.<\/p>\n
Bukayo Saka converted the resulting spot-kick to put the Gunners 2-1 ahead after Son Heung-min's first-half equaliser had levelled the score following a Romero own goal, but fortunately for Tottenham \u2013 and Jenas \u2013 Son equalised again just a few seconds later to earn the visitors a point.<\/p>\n
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Sky Sports is bringing you 500 live football games to watch, as well access to Cricket, Golf, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA and more across eight<\/span> dedicated channels. Sky Sports is the <\/span>only way to watch all the action this year.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a322 a month<\/p>\n Jenas, who presents Match of the Day X as well as The One Show, spent eight years at Tottenham as a player, racking up 202 appearances for the club and scoring 26 goals. He also played for Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and QPR, and spent time on loan at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n