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[quote=Anonymous]I'm an older ref and us older refs also often get abused, but, without older refs, these leagues and tournaments definitely would not happen. I refereed maybe 8 mini games over the weekend U13s and U16s and the coaches and parents were all quite pleasant actually. Pretty rare but on the flip side, the weekend before I was doing a rec tournament and it was U11 girls. This girl on the blue team tripped and really hit hard. You can tell she was hurt. The ball went up field. I turned quickly to see who had possession and blue was about to get the ball as the white team was well behind in the race for the ball. I blew the whistle to stop play for an injury and call drop for blue.  The drop ball goes to the team that last possessed/touched the ball.  I didn't see who touched the ball last because the injured player had my attention for an extra few seconds. Well the white team coach went absolutely bananas that I was giving the drop to blue since blue was the team that was hurt. I guess I could have waited until the blue team got to the ball and touched it, but I don't even think that would have mattered to the coach because he thought it should go to white because a blue player was hurt. I mean this how petty these coaches are. There's a little tiny 10 year old lying there crying and this coach is going nuts over a drop ball and he was wrong about the rule. I'm sure there are millions of examples of coaches acting ridiculous over something petty like a throw in call or something. But it's just so important for these coaches, parents, and players to win that common sense is out the window. I was doing a U12 boys game recently and these parents SCREAMED about EVERY SINGLE CALL. I mean even calls I made. I blew the whistle and called offside. The parents were screaming that it was offside.  I'm like...I know! That's why I blew the whistle. They just can not help themselves.[/quote]

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