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I’ve just revisited this now and totally ignore the parents and spectators mostly and if it goes over the acceptable threshold, I get the home coach to deal with it (with the away coach support if it’s an away parent). I did notice when getting involved with them it would then turn into heated...

Some good advice here - I suspected that there were more effective ways of handling it hence the question. I take onboard that it’s low level abuse, but I will add that as referees just “accept it” as the norm - it’s never going to get better and we will be loosing the younger referees or the...

Evening, I’ve a question but first a little bit of context. I first passed my referees course in 2001 a few years after leaving the Army (9 years service) and got thrown into open age, I refereed for one or two seasons and was fairly active in the local referees association. I’m now 49 years...