Atletico midfielder Keidi Bare handed nine-game ban for astonishing tirade against referee LaLiga Incident occurred while playing for B team

A whopping nine-game ban has been handed down to Keidi Bare after the Atletico Madrid midfielder delivered an expletive-ridden protest to a referee during a B-team game.

Initially booked for dissent 14 minutes into Sunday's game against Deportivo La Coruna's B team, the Albanian proceeded to continue debating his case and found a second yellow card quickly forthcoming.

Referee Jose Joaquin Gallego Gambin's report then details exactly why further punishment was necessary.

"Once he was expelled," wrote the official, "He addressed me in the following terms: 'You're a fool, you're a fool, you son of a bitch, you're a son of a bitch, I s**t on your f*****g mother, I s**it on your f*****g mother!

"At the end of the first half, when we were preparing to enter our dressing room, the player was at the door, again projecting towards us in the terms discussed above, repeatedly."

Thus Bare, who has appeared for the Atletico first-team on two occasions in the Copa del Rey, will sit out the final four matches of his team's Segunda B play-off push as well as the first five games of next season.