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Declan Rice voiced his notable anger towards referee Jesus Gil Manzano on Thursday night, following West Ham United's 1-0 Europa League semi-final second leg defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt.

The Hammers’ European journey came to an end in Germany as Frankfurt backed up their 2-1 first-leg victory in London with another win against David Moyes ’s side on Thursday evening. West Ham weren’t helped in the first half when Aaron Cresswell was shown a red card by Manzano after hauling down Jens Petter Hauge as the last defender.

The hosts didn’t take the advantage from the subsequent free-kick on the edge of the box but did go ahead a few moments later as Rafael Santos Borre converted from close range after being found open in the area by Ansgar Knauff.

Manzano brandished a total of nine cards to players in the game and another red card to Hammers manager Moyes following a show of frustration from the Scotsman on the bench. It's fair to say that many of the so called '50/50' challenges went against West Ham, something which obviously angered Rice, who in his moment of anguish, used some very choice words towards Manzano.

As seen on a video that's surfaced on social media, the Englishman said as he walked down the tunnel: "Ref, ref, it's so poor. All night, it's so bad. How can you be that bad? Honestly, you've probably been ******* paid. It's ******* corruption."

Although he'd cooled off a tad after