Watching the lad play at The Marathon ground on Shooters Hill and saw two six-year old boys on adjacent pitch reduced to tears by a bunch of slack-jawed adults screaming at them,the opposition ,the referee and anyone else unfortunate enough to be within earshot.The poor kids were having the joy of playing drained out of them by men and women both.What a dispiriting spectacle.
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Local side where I live makes the parents sign a form about behaviour --otherwise they cannot watch and if they mouth it off at the game -its a red card and they and there son/daughter are thrown out the club.....sad really ...and when they try to get in another club or transfer --would you want them ?
Swimming parenta are Much better behaved though!!!
Today the usual accusation of cheating was being banded about so at half time I went to chat to the dad of a kid on the other team who was dishing it out. He told me not to take another step towards him or else. Now in this situation it would be easy to tell him where to go - but I wouldn't do that in front of 8 and 9 year olds. So I refused to carry on until he assured me he'd not say another word - which he couldn't do but was done so on his behalf by other parents.
Sad.
he plays rugby instead now and loves it
Anyway, a couple of minutes later, my Dad still receives abuse from the opposition players about the penalty decisions so he asks their coach to take off a player who was very close to getting sent off. Anyway, a fight breaks out on the pitch later in the game, and everyone tries to break it up, then the player who was asked to leave the pitch...comes running on and fly-kicks a player in front of me, so we grabbed hold of him and broke him away...he turns round and punches the first person he could see who unfortunately was my dad.
Since that game, my love in playing football decreased...i'm leaving my side at the end of the season, and i can't see myself going back..all because of some guy. Unbelievable.
Easy for me to say Sir Humphrey,but keep it up,we need people of your calibre out there.
Stumbled,again very easy for me to say,but keep playing,don't let the guttersnipes grind you down. You're a long time not playing when you're no longer young enough to do so. Keep the faith,play on.
Easy for me to say Sir Humphrey,but keep it up,we need people of your calibre out there.
Stubley,again very easy for me to say,but keep playing,don't let the guttersnipes grind you down. You're a long time not playing when you're no longer young enough to do so. Keep the faith,play on.
Any referee of youth games will tell you that it's the parents that are the most difficult part of the game, not the kids themselves. Some parents need to stop trying to play the game through their children, and instead focus their energies on encouraging the kids to both enjoy the game, and improve at it.
Interestingly, at most academy games (i.e. u16 and below), which I have refereed literally hundreds of, the parents are dead quiet. Of course they have the fear of their sons losing their potential contract, but I think the main reason for that is that there is a broad understanding that the game is occurring principally for the development of players, as opposed to either team winning.
Needless to say, I have not managed a junior match since, nor will I do so in the future.
At every FFA approved match (which is basically all organised football) there MUST be a ground steward on duty and he has the power - at the direction of the referee - to remove any spectators deemed to be in breach of ground regulations (swearing, threatening behaviour, etc.)
As a result - and because everyone know that the authorities will come down very hard - you get very little trouble at youth games here, I have only seen one incident in all my time here and that was a kid from our club who swore at someone in the crowd and ended up getting a life ban from the club.
Interestingly, although Rugby League has very similar rules in place to football there are still regular mini-riots at junior Rugby League games over here, some of the parental behaviour is absolutely shocking - although Rugby League is played and watched by what you might call the "lower classes" in these parts.