Great video but
I don't think there's anything about football that needs to change.
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presferatu, Mon 12 Aug 2013, 12:52,
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I think you're wrong, sorry: something is needed
The children's football scene in the UK is huge and run by thousands of marvellous volunteers for the benefit of kids, all under the remit of the FA. For some of these children it's the best time of the week: coaches who encourage them for trying their best to play nicely in a team. And then some idiotic parent stands on the touchline and publicly yells at their hapless child that they are rubbish, or worse. The worst offenders eventually get banned by the people running it but it's difficult to do and not part of what any coach, ref, bag-carrier, or bacon-butty cooking volunteer signed up for. This problem is best solved by getting the other people on the touchline not to tolerate it.
There's loads the FA is getting wrong (especially at the professional end of the game), but my attitude to the importance of what they do what changed completely when I saw the huge positive effect that the local kids' clubs -- and the men and women who keep them running -- had on the children.
Or to put it another way, that parents demeaning their children at these events is a common enough problem that even the FA need to admit it shows that something does need to change -- although you're right it's not really the football.
Heavens, that was grown-up. I also think a CDC is never not funny, just so you know.
Good work on the video Cap'n (and Capn's dog). (edit: and Defying Darwin, sorry!)
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Pootle, Fri 16 Aug 2013, 16:59,
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