Obnoxious fans aka hooligans. They’re not just at European soccer matches anymore. We had a problem in our Classic I league a few years ago where refs were threatening to not work and clubs couldn’t get parents to volunteer as field marshalls, it was so bad. They instituted a “Silent Saturday” which seemed to work [...]
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I Can Relate to the Mom Laundress
OK, raise your hand if you used to smirk at all those Tide commercials on TV. Clearly that was waaaay before parenting days. I don’t have a solution for muddy white shorts. I’d say fire the uniform parent, but that creates new problems. A few weeks ago Holmes came back from a college camp (yes, [...]
6 Things Soccer Parents Should Say to Their Players
Mr. Watson was telling me about Doyle’s U-13 game today, and he said, “Ya know, I didn’t say any of my usual stuff to him before the game. But he really played well and seemed to be having a good time out there.” Wow. Resisting the urge to point out a possible cause-and-effect, I dug [...]