The Albion boss was red-carded by ref Darren England after his side’s 1-0 defeat to Fulham. De Zerbi spoke to referees’ chief Webb this week after his side were denied a valid goal by a VAR error.
Roberto De Zerbi said: “I want to be clear. If you want to come to me to have a meeting and you want to lose two hours of my time, of my work, you have to have a different attitude on the pitch. If we want to improve our work in football, they have to be with another attitude, only this. I don’t want to talk about particular situations – ‘It was penalty’ or other things. I am speaking only of attitude. I can’t hear one opponent say a bad word – and I won’t repeat this word – and the referee without personality to control the game. But one time I lost time with a meeting and it will never happen again. I am not in England just to fool around in meetings.”
De Zerbi said he did not swear to England. Asked whether he therefore felt the red card was unjust,
Roberto De Zerbi replied: “It’s not right but it’s not a problem.”
