Trouble with parents at local football
@carpetunderlay (3)
May 8, 2009 11:23am CST
I run a couple of junior football (soccer) teams within our local leagues and have on ocassion had issues with parents behaviour on the side lines.
Does anyone else have this type of experience, difficulties with parents from yours and opposing teams and how did you, or how do your clubs deal with it.
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@Boffle (123)
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12 May 09
Yes, I've seen all kinds of appalling things at children's football matches. And all of them perpetrated by fathers. I've seen them swearing on the touchline, running after the referees and even threatening members of the opposing team. I'm not sure, though, that the clubs have done very much to deal with it at all. Some dads have been banned from the ground, but, since the clubs need the support of the parents, I think most are reluctant to take firm action. The other problem is that other parents don't want to intervene because these men have got themselves into such a state, you don't know what they might do to you! Of course, if this is all you see at football matches on TV, it's difficult to know how to stop it.
