Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger says match officials must be shown more respect

Arsene Wenger agrees that a line needs to be drawn over the confrontation of match officials, and that includes behaving better himself.

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has spoken of his concern over the "pretty scary increase" in such incidents, in the spotlight recently after Chelsea players surrounded referee Bjorn Kuipers during their Champions League clash with Paris Saint-Germain.

The Arsenal boss believes there is a collective responsibility not to take complaints too far, and he admits he often has to reign himself in - most recently when he berated Svein Oddvar Moen after Alexis Sanchez was booked for simulation against Monaco.

"With the team I don't think we have had too much of that problem, we have never been reproached for doing it, but I question myself on my individual behaviour, that is true, because I am sometimes keen to as well," Wenger said.

"We want everybody to be respected and the referees are part of everybody.

"You want players to be ready to fight for each other. But how far has that to go in the behaviour? You have to draw a line somewhere, you cannot go after every decision of the referee.

"You have to stop or you push the referees. How far can you go?"

Wenger accepts managers must also show constraint on the touchline, rather than continually bend the ear of the fourth official.

"Sometimes it helps you to get your frustration out, but I don't think it is right, honestly. That doesn't mean I don't do it. I do," he added.

"I have looked back on the tape sometimes, and even sometimes at half-time I think (to myself) 'come on, stop that, my friend', and then I think in the second half I will not say a word to him any more."