The two shared a fascination for country music and right-wing politics, believing the best way to oppose conservatives is not to berate or ridicule but to respect and understand.

On the touchline, Postecoglou was going potty, somehow managing to gesticulate wildly in six different directions at the same time in the kind of fluid movement that was utterly beyond the players he was berating.

According to the complaint, Acosta was working for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power when Mathis berated him for blocking his driveway with a city dump truck and threatened him with a gun.

In another video an elderly woman walks along a line of helmeted riot police, berating them for pitting Georgian against Georgian and defending politicians in their palaces.

They’ve taught me that I don’t have to berate myself, hate myself, call myself names.