Happens every weekend across all ages and levels, hence why then fai and referee associations are crying out for referees due to the number of dropouts.
Any club officials or “fans” that commit acts against referees should be fined or thrown of their respective leagues.
It will still go on, but at least these gobshites will be aware of the repercussions.
Bar those clubs from the league for a bit whenever this happens. see how they can sort this out for themselves.
I imagine a lot of it comes from watching professional football too. Players roaring the ear of a ref or linesman without any penalties most of the time. So they do that in their under 15’s C league game on a Sunday then too, while managers trying to play 3-2-2-2-1 and shout abuse at the 17 year old who missed an offside.
Club should be named and shamed. No excuse for this behavior and the player should be banned for life & the club in question should be fined and given a suspended ban, if its a first offense.
I coach u8’s. A parent of a kid I coach had a go at me over a safety rule at a club we were playing at. I had the wrong footwear for their astro pitch and their groundskeeper wouldn’t let me on the pitch. Their pitch, their rules. It didn’t involve him at all, yet he was swearing and insulting me in front of the kids, demanding I storm onto the pitch and coach the kids. Other parents were standing there doing nothing. I raised it with the club and nothing happened.
It’s all volunteer based and nobody wants to rock the boat. I’m done at the end of the season. Parents should be made sign a code of conduct and if they don’t abide, their kids are kicked off the team. If parents face no repurcussions this crap will continue.
My granda reffed well into his 60’s and hid several incidents like this from the family until he had retired because he was afraid of his grandkids going out for revenge, don’t know why anyone would want to do the job.
Nice to see something being done about it.
Remember playing a match u16s, referee sent some lad off. Went up hit the ref a few digs and drove off. Crazy. Those scum didn’t last long.
I reffed an under 16’s game. Couple of hundred watching the game. I was getting dogs abuse off the mother of one of the players on the sideline, really personal stuff. I stopped the game , went over to her, offered her the whistle so she could finish the game, round of applause from her own side, she left the ground in tears ! True story
I have a list of 5 teams in my head, I’m 99.9% sure it will be one of those teams. Bunch of scrotes the lot of them.
This kind of aggression is why I stopped playing men’s senior football. As if playing in the middle of winter, dragging yourself out of the bed on a Sunday morning to play on a “pitch” wasn’t enough to ask.
No, we have players roaring at each other (teammates at each other mostly), players trying to hurt each other in tackles (we all have work/lives to go back to the next day lads). Refs are being intimidated over every small decision (it’s a throw-in, no one is winning tv rights here).
The whole thing adds up to a very toxic atmosphere where the game of football, to be enjoyed, is taken away. I want to play a good game where it’s taken seriously, but that doesn’t entitle you to act like a fucking prick over kicking a bag of air with a bunch of unfit hungover lads. Some people lose that context.
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Happens every weekend across all ages and levels, hence why then fai and referee associations are crying out for referees due to the number of dropouts.
Any club officials or “fans” that commit acts against referees should be fined or thrown of their respective leagues.
It will still go on, but at least these gobshites will be aware of the repercussions.
Bar those clubs from the league for a bit whenever this happens. see how they can sort this out for themselves.
I imagine a lot of it comes from watching professional football too. Players roaring the ear of a ref or linesman without any penalties most of the time. So they do that in their under 15’s C league game on a Sunday then too, while managers trying to play 3-2-2-2-1 and shout abuse at the 17 year old who missed an offside.
Club should be named and shamed. No excuse for this behavior and the player should be banned for life & the club in question should be fined and given a suspended ban, if its a first offense.
I coach u8’s. A parent of a kid I coach had a go at me over a safety rule at a club we were playing at. I had the wrong footwear for their astro pitch and their groundskeeper wouldn’t let me on the pitch. Their pitch, their rules. It didn’t involve him at all, yet he was swearing and insulting me in front of the kids, demanding I storm onto the pitch and coach the kids. Other parents were standing there doing nothing. I raised it with the club and nothing happened.
It’s all volunteer based and nobody wants to rock the boat. I’m done at the end of the season. Parents should be made sign a code of conduct and if they don’t abide, their kids are kicked off the team. If parents face no repurcussions this crap will continue.
My granda reffed well into his 60’s and hid several incidents like this from the family until he had retired because he was afraid of his grandkids going out for revenge, don’t know why anyone would want to do the job.
Nice to see something being done about it.
Remember playing a match u16s, referee sent some lad off. Went up hit the ref a few digs and drove off. Crazy. Those scum didn’t last long.
I reffed an under 16’s game. Couple of hundred watching the game. I was getting dogs abuse off the mother of one of the players on the sideline, really personal stuff. I stopped the game , went over to her, offered her the whistle so she could finish the game, round of applause from her own side, she left the ground in tears ! True story
I have a list of 5 teams in my head, I’m 99.9% sure it will be one of those teams. Bunch of scrotes the lot of them.
This kind of aggression is why I stopped playing men’s senior football. As if playing in the middle of winter, dragging yourself out of the bed on a Sunday morning to play on a “pitch” wasn’t enough to ask.
No, we have players roaring at each other (teammates at each other mostly), players trying to hurt each other in tackles (we all have work/lives to go back to the next day lads). Refs are being intimidated over every small decision (it’s a throw-in, no one is winning tv rights here).
The whole thing adds up to a very toxic atmosphere where the game of football, to be enjoyed, is taken away. I want to play a good game where it’s taken seriously, but that doesn’t entitle you to act like a fucking prick over kicking a bag of air with a bunch of unfit hungover lads. Some people lose that context.