One of the problems with reffing kids games is that the home team usually supplies the ref

Who is often a parental a player, helper, brother of someone at the club. And of course it is automatically believed to be be biased. On top of that, no parent believes that their own little angel can do any wrong and it’s a recipe for disaster. We found it it to be pretty much ok over the years, there was a physical punch up at a tournament for 10 year olds once which was amazing. A mother from the opposing team came out on to the pitch,shouted at our parents and then came round the back of us and decked this chap who was completely away from the group who are usually more vocal. It turned out to be the opposing teams managers wife, he cam running across the pitch and literally jumped into our parents studs up. He later got banned by the FA for the rest of the season .
Another thing is when offside gets intruduced at about age 13,it’s so complicated to start off with for the kids, viewing parents and the volunteer linesmen to get to grips with when actually doing it.
I’ve the 8 years my lads been playing you get to know which away fixtures will have tough decisions and which won’t. However this year we have fully neutral refs provided by the FA and I’m proud to admit that my lads team has won the annual FairPlay award many times over the years. And the leagues,league cups and county cups many times. You don’t have to be rough to win, you’ve just got to be good.

Posted By: Augustus Pablo on October 14th 2018 at 21:22:35

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Good read about reffing (Other Football) - Old Git, Oct 14, 16:46:51
- One of the problems with reffing kids games is that the home team usually supplies the ref (Other Football) - Augustus Pablo, Oct 14, 21:22:35
  - Too many words. (Other Football) - Huge Small, Oct 15, 00:38:41
- Great read and very very true (unfortunately). I was a ref .... (Other Football) - Saucerer, Oct 14, 18:58:27
- Refereeing is really difficult, (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Oct 14, 18:29:29
- I used to hate umpiring in cricket when not impartial. (Other Football) - Huge Small, Oct 14, 18:10:26
- You’re a shit lino (Other Football) - Jumbo1, Oct 14, 17:46:20
- There's a bloke who sits near me at Carrow Road (Other Football) - Charles21, Oct 14, 17:41:58
  - Is it Selwyn? (n/m) (Other Football) - Graham Nine, Oct 14, 22:20:13
  - Say hello to me next time (n/m) (Other Football) - Jumbo1, Oct 14, 17:48:08
    - It's not you (Other Football) - Charles21, Oct 14, 19:48:14
- Good read that, very familiar stuff from my own low level reffing career (n/m) (Other Football) - Worthing Yellow, Oct 14, 17:34:19
- Mic them up. Simples (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, Oct 14, 16:58:39
  - That would be a disaster.... (Other Football) - usacanary, Oct 14, 17:41:40
    - it's not a disaster in any sport where refs are miced up (Other Football) - CWC, Oct 14, 17:46:27
      - Not sure about the correlation there though. (Other Football) - norway, Oct 14, 17:59:11
        
        tbh it's not even a football thing (Other Football) - CWC, Oct 14, 18:08:05
        
        American football officials also get all sorts of shit. (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Oct 14, 19:39:09
        
        Rugby as a game can penalise it better though. (Other Football) - norway, Oct 14, 18:14:55
        
        I was more thinking from the supporters... (n/m) (Other Football) - CWC, Oct 14, 20:03:36
        
        I remember the 10 yardage rule being brought into hockey. (Other Football) - Huge Small, Oct 14, 18:26:10
        
        They tried it though. (Other Football) - norway, Oct 14, 19:11:20
- Good that - thanks for posting. (n/m) (Other Football) - norway, Oct 14, 16:55:30

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