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A valued lesson!
At one point during a game, the coach said to one of his young players, “Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?” The little boy nodded yes.
“Do you understand that what matters is whether we win together as a team?” The little boy nodded yes.
“So,” the coach continued, “when a strike is called, or you are out at first, you don’t argue or curse or attack the umpire. Do you understand all that?” Again, the boy nodded yes.
“Good,” said the coach. “Now go over there and explain it to your mother.”
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never go to a under 11 football match as the violence is horrid 22 kids enjoying them selves the moms & dads killing one another.
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It’s so true. My son plays for a team and one of the parents takes it so seriously it’s embarrasing. At one match recently the refereee threatend to “send the parent off”. It turned into a slanging match in which the ref and the parent argued about civil liberties and so on – it was hilarious.
Upshot was all the parents in our team have had to sign a bit of paper in which we all have promised to behave ourselves at the matches in future 😥
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Its exactly the same at swimming galas, the kids are having a great time but the parents are busy having a go at the starter or the marshalls or even each other 😮
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we had a local soccer club disqualified from competition, and disbanded because the parents always got into a brawl if their team did not win. Got so bad, they had the umpire cornered and later knocked out in the change rooms. The kids took their parents lead, and started bashing the opposing kids on the other team. Made the news on TV here. It is sad really that parents are not a better example.
Our son plays aussie rules for his school. The motto there is “winning is not as important as enjoying the game” Doesn’t stop the parents from taking it way too serious tho.
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