Un Beliveable Behaviour

zebs

zebs

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My 9yr old son plays football , today he played a match 12clock kick off at our home ground, ...Not forgetting these are 9/10yr olds playing a game of football......The opposing team parents/friends behaviour boarded on ASBO material!!!!....They swore at my sons team members, shouted abuse across the pitch to us(parents) , encouraged their players to " Take Out " and "Snap their legs " I was horrified that grown men and women could behave in that manner at a kids football match..The poor Ref tried to instill calm but to no avail, in fact they then targeted him for abuse, in the end he stopped the game and told the opposing manager that he would be submitting a report of complaint to the league....The score was 0-0....!!!!!
 
True story...

During a radio phone-in up here a couple of years ago, the caller got through and asked to address his comments to BBC Scotland radio/TV reporter Chick Young.

The conversation went as follows (possibly not verbatim but not far off it):

Caller:
Chick, I just want to know what you think of these parents that go to watch kids' football and shout dogs abuse from start to finish. They shout and swear at the kids, their opponents, the coaches, the ref and his assistants. They tell them to get stuck in, break an opponent's leg and so on.

Chick:
- It's terrible. I've seen it happen and I hate it. I don't understand it. I don't see the point in the parents being there if all they're going to do is shout abuse.

Caller:
Yes, they should be there to shout support and encouragement, shouldn't they?

Chick:
Absolutely. It sickens me when I see it happen. We're trying to develop these kids and the parents aren't helping. Referees have a ahard enough job as it is without these morons making it worse.

Caller:
Do you know who I am, Chick?

Chick:
No. Should I?

Caller:
You don't remember me?

Chick:
No you'll have to remind me.

Caller:
I'm the ref who had to approach you at a kids match and tell you to stop shouting and swearing at the kids and me!

You could almost feel the heat off Chick's cheeks through the radio...
 
Can well believe it......

But in the 3yrs that ive been going to watch Lucas play Ive never once shouted any kind of Abuse at anyone,...Encouraged our team and applauded the opposite team when needed.....Todays match was Disgraceful :( and I hope the Manager and parents are warned....
 
Oh dear....

It sounds like some of the older football thugs (on and off the pitch) are taught their bad behaviour and encouraged to use it from an early age.
 
Zebs, such behaviour is far too commonplace throughout the junior leagues. In fact it is about as common as the decent sporting behaviour that I believe just about carries the game on. Such goings on occur at all levels even in county representative games and the relative wealth of an area is no automatic guide to the nature of parents behaviour.

I've heard opposition coaches scream at their youngsters to give my son a good kicking, simply because being tall and athletic he won every ball in the air.I am quite loud but it is to encourage and instruct the boys and even praise the opposition. The behaviour of the parents does rub off on the kids who mostly get on with each other off the field.

Whilst I could not condone it I got a lot of satisfaction from one particular game at U-16 level. One of our team, a superb footballer and now a coach (at 18!) at a Premier league club, was getting fed up up with the opposition linesman, a huge overweight parent in an obscenely tight tracksuit. The guy was blatantly cheating and telling the boys in his team to "hit the c***s. hurt them!" Our player shouted out so that everyone could hear "If that fat b**tard calls anyone in my team a c*** again , I, on my own, will hurt him up so much with his flagstick that he will never get to use a c*** again."
A couple of other fathers walked up and stood as if to support the lump and there was some discussion. For about 10 minutes the game continued. Then in a high pitch scream the guy berated one of his own team. " You wa**er! You let the no-hope c*** get past you." Our player called to one of our team to kick the ball way off the field and rolling up his sleeves began to slowly walk towards the guy. The other parents moved away and even from the other side off the pitch it was clear that the lump was terrified. Finally he ran, accompanied by the jeers of our team and most of our parents. He didn't come back. The ref sent our player off but afterwards shook his hand and said that that should have happened to the guy years ago.
 
There is no other way to stop this kind of appalling behaviour excep for the Ref to stop the game - immediately - and pref for the parents to take their kids off the pitch as soon as it starts, before the ref is pushed to act

Unless you get one or other - pref both - responses, nothing will change except it will get worse
 
OHH dear, he moves up to 11 a side next season....I and other parents have made it quite clear to our manager that if that sort of abuse happens again we will instantly take our boys off the pitch... some of the team were very anxious in fact scared after what had happened .....I did think to myself had I been on Duty and just popped down to watch for a while would it have stopped the loud foul-mouthed parents acting as they did.?......May Be Not.....!
 
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