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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teenage refs are influenced from parents yelling.

DD had a game yesterday and every time a parent yelled from the other team a foul was called.  There were numerous of the same foul's on MY DD's team, but the parents don't usually yell and let the refs do their job.  These fouls were the same as the fouls on the other team, but the only difference is the other team's parents would be more vocal.  All 3 refs appeared to be under 18 yrs of age and this is an [b]ECNL[/b] game.

Also, one AR had called offsides and the ball went out of bounds, which resulted in a corner kick, but the main ref didn't even look to the AR at all and immediately went to the corner kick.  The AR put their flag down and let the play continue which resulted in a goal off the corner kick.

[b] THE AR SHOULD HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATING TO THE REF THAT IT WAS OFFSIDES BEFORE THE CORNER KICK EVEN HAPPENED!![/b]

[b]I don't mind teenager's refereeing games, but if you aren't going to uphold your own call, then you shouldn't be a referee.[/b][/quote]

Again the criticism illustrates the problem: as a referee I hear this as the parent believes the AR got a call right and the Center missed it and the result was a goal off a corner.   Assuming the parent is correct (which is a big assumption) so what?   Mistakes are made, that is frustrating but part of the game.  Even when the mistakes are caught as this weekend when i saw my AR stand with flag up after a goal indicating offsides instead of running to center, we conferred and ruled it offsides and no goal, guess what?  Yep a barrage of abuse started at us because we attempted to do our best on a split second judgment call.

And now parents are posting in all caps that they don’t want the referees who reffed their game back.   On a thread about ref shortage.

Oh well [/quote]

+1 this illustrates the problem well.

Parents and coaches shouldn’t lose their minds and berate the referee if a call is missed. I saw a referee recently eject a coach for screaming profanities about a call he didn’t like and was happy to see the ref cut that behavior.[/quote]

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