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AIBU to think parents like these are an utter disgrace and ruin youth football?

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user47 · 20/09/2024 16:11

AIBU to think parents like this are the reason so few volunteers come forward to run grassroots football clubs?

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OP posts:
Newrumpus · 20/09/2024 18:14

User135644 · 20/09/2024 17:25

It's always been a game for yobs

Speak for yourself

Puzzledandpissedoff · 20/09/2024 18:07

User135644 · 20/09/2024 17:25

It's always been a game for yobs

Well they're not all yobs, but I agree the ethos around the "game" encourages them - the tribalism is very strong and unfortunately some are more susceptible to that than others, which too often enables brutish behaviour

My headteacher ex refused to have it in his school; rugby and cricket yes, but football no. Needless to say this caused angst with a few knuckledraggers who believed he was thwarting a certain premiership career, but it also avoided a lot of trouble

Seymour5 · 20/09/2024 17:35

Pleased DGS has taken up rugby! The parents are far more civilised.

Gogosmarty · 20/09/2024 17:31

User135644 · 20/09/2024 17:25

It's always been a game for yobs

Sure. all those 100s of millions of women, kids, men playing and they're all yobs... right-o

Gogosmarty · 20/09/2024 17:30

Thankfully I coach girl's football, and there's a lot less bad behaviour in general, when it does happen it's always the bloody dads/dad coaches that are idiots.

User135644 · 20/09/2024 17:25

It's always been a game for yobs

SpanThatWorld · 20/09/2024 17:17

So much aggression from some parents.

We had one team whose parents used to let their huge dogs run around the pitch; eventually we refused to play there.

And absolutely no aggression when my kids played cricket or hockey.

I love football as a game but the culture around it can be vile.

YellowphantGrey · 20/09/2024 17:10

This mild. My DS is 16 and a qualified FA Referee. He refuses to referee matches for over 11s but whilst doing at 8 year olds match last season, he had a Dad try and square up to him and started pushing him around, calling him a cunt because he sent his child off for two illegal tackles.

DS raised an official complaint with the football team and so did other parents and he ended up being banned for 1 season from attending games

The incident you've linked is DS old team ground and this was a regular occurance

Never fails to amaze me how angry the Dads get at children's football matches. You fucking dickhead, you little twat and fucking idiot are just some of the pleasantries they shout at their own children.

Ironic given looking at them, the last time they took part in sports themselves was at school.

Gorgonemilezola · 20/09/2024 16:45

Appalling. DH refereed for years after an injury stopped him playing. He reckons kid's football is the worst for behaviour on the sidelines. He's abandoned matches because of it and had some awful abuse. Needs nipping in the bud. Apart from anything else, what is it teaching the kids?

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sorrynotathome · 20/09/2024 16:13

I didn't follow your link but as someone whose DH ran youth football teams for years, I can honestly say that people put in huge amounts of time and effort for sometimes very little reward and a lot of abuse/pisstaking.

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