Barnsley manager Keith Hill has urged the game's authorities to offer players more protection from abusive fans during football matches.
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has been suspended for one game and fined £20,000 after admitting a Football Association charge of improper conduct following his side's recent defeat at Fulham, where the Uruguayan raised his middle finger to home fans who had been taunting him.
Hill, who criticised a small section of Barnsley fans for booing out-of-contract skipper Jacob Butterfield on Boxing Day, said: "It's not a climate I was brought up in. I don't think society in general will go back to those values we were brought up on by our parents and grandparents. We're breeding a different type of child now.
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It's just unfortunate.
Quite often you'll see children at football matches and they'll be a "mini-me" of the parents who are shouting abuse at players.
"I do feel the authorities have to do something to protect managers and players a little bit more than they are doing because we've seen Suarez has been charged again after objecting to some of the shouts from supporters and he needs protecting.
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Players do need protecting at grounds when they're taking corners and throw-ins.
They're having things thrown at them but the police and the stewards tend to ignore that and the majority of the time you'll find the stewards are supporters of the home club."