Under 14 this weekend green v blue, a massively one sided cup game. Blue have a corner tsken by their captain and the green CAR is clearly having words with him. I keep an eye on it to see if anything happens. It doesn't and the corner comes in and goes for a goal kick. Blues captain who took the corner as he's running back tells me to keep an eye out as "apparently I called th lineo a kn0bhead", which the captain said he didn't. I tell him to get on with it and I'll keep my eyes open.
Come half time the CAR comes over and tells me to keep an eye on the blues captain and he's called him a kn0bhead. Obviously I was fully expecting this conversation. The CAR said he told the captain to calm down and was just verbally abused. Now normally I will do my best to defend a CAR and protect them as they are doing their bit by helping out, no matter how bad they are. But what annoyed me is the whole time he was talking to me he is checking something on his mobile and paying little to no attention to his conversation with me. Also I couldn't help but think why on earth is a grown man getting into any verbals with a boy of 13. Kids at that age can have a short fuse, and not often I'll defend players, but they shouldn't have to put up with people like provoking them. I told the CAR just to steer clear of it as it's not worth getting involved, and they are just a bunch of kids.
I just can't for th life of me work out why grown adults get involved in things like this.
Come half time the CAR comes over and tells me to keep an eye on the blues captain and he's called him a kn0bhead. Obviously I was fully expecting this conversation. The CAR said he told the captain to calm down and was just verbally abused. Now normally I will do my best to defend a CAR and protect them as they are doing their bit by helping out, no matter how bad they are. But what annoyed me is the whole time he was talking to me he is checking something on his mobile and paying little to no attention to his conversation with me. Also I couldn't help but think why on earth is a grown man getting into any verbals with a boy of 13. Kids at that age can have a short fuse, and not often I'll defend players, but they shouldn't have to put up with people like provoking them. I told the CAR just to steer clear of it as it's not worth getting involved, and they are just a bunch of kids.
I just can't for th life of me work out why grown adults get involved in things like this.