Blood, sweat and fears: the grassroots football referees facing abuse in England
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2019
- The FA has rebooted its Respect Campaign this season to protect grassroots referees in England but many continue to suffer both mental and physical abuse.
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There are some horrifying stories but hope remains: as of 2019-20 season a new sin-bin system will be rolled out across all grassroots leagues for anybody caught abusing a referee, with other initiatives also in the pipeline.
Michael Butler meets four referees, as well as the FA, to find out just how bad the abuse has got, what is being done about it and if that is enough for the men and women in the middle.
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The verbal abuse is rampant in grassroots youth games in America as well. It’s the main reason that there is a severe grassroots referee shortage
Purple shirt is stupid. It just shows that the ref is less experienced and may be easily influenced. Regardless of that, the issue is not the age of the abused referee, it is the fact that the abuse is happening. Abuse to adult referees is just as serious.
hate the purple shirt idea. In no other profession do any authority figure get to were different colours. Im a youth referee myself and would hate to have to were another colour shirt, black is the only colour I should wear
Agreed. Everything is in place to make things go smoothly but the huge challenge is for a 20 year old to take charge of a match involving a bunch of 35 year olds that give the referee zero respect. The ONLY way to deal with this is to deal with the disrespect as soon as possible. Even before the first whistle. They have to know you mean it.
Just a couple of weeks ago we had a very similar report on this on the news here in Portugal. With some violent examples happening in kids´s matches...
Blows my mind even when prem players crowd the ref and touch him. I referee hockey and if that happens they are quite simply kicked out. It’s in the rule book. There more order with stricter rules.
It should get stricter, or at least be more punished by referees ourselfs, I believe we are sometimes intimidated by players therefore we do not show cards. I was kicked and punched in the stomach by a 14 yo for making a ''wrong'' decision. After a while I got to think how can at I contain the threat for my self so it never happens again. I think we just need to be more strict, touch me in a way that inaproppiate and I am directly done with you, the same for cussing with disseases, or couches going mental, it al sparks a chainreaction of something bigger. Ironicly football has the status of being a gentlemens sport, of which all the mannes disappeared....
Great video&info, thanks for doing this
My english teacher: The listening test is gonna be easy, just a video of a referee interview
The listening test: 2:08
@5:33 I understand. However he was actually very aggressive because he’s a child in a grown body and he has not learned to control his emotions. This is a great topic. The level of abuse is at times shocking. What I found works is to outline the expectations at the coin toss and punish the offences early and often. The quicker you apply the punishment, the quicker all 22 players and benches realize you mean business.
I’m a referee but the sin-bin is going to be awful. They will be out for 8 minutes but that’s 8 minutes of play, not from when they go off. So we’ll need multiple watches to time sin bins just incase multiple need to go in the sin bin. Fine for more experienced referees and me but the poor 14 year old new referees will be shellshocked.
The sin bin is amazing. It's made the dissent I've received dropped to almost nothing.
I do get your point regarding keeping track of several players sin-bin time. There might be a technical solution like countdown timers handed to the players which they have to show having run down in order to be allowed back to the pitch again. I am very much convinced that implementing that time-out will work as a deterrent quite well after some time. That will especially help with the instances, where multiple players gang up on the referee after a decision they are not agreeing with. Having to play with two or three players being sent to the sin-bin simultaneously, will have a huge impact on the team in question. So team dynamics will work for their goal of winning as well as the referees safety. Coaches (and other players) very often reprimand players who weaken their team by being sent off with a red card - once that happens for timeouts at the sin-bin, that issue will pretty much take care of itself.
It starts at the top, penalize actions and language at the top level at it will funnel down to the lower, dissent to the referee is a yellow or red not a sin bin
There is no way I would wear a purple shirt😂
The purple shirts dont make a difference. From experience it makes it worse 😂😂
I reckon there should be a police officers at football matches to help and protect the referees no matter what.
At every game, at every ground, at every park in the country? Yeah right
Yeah, stupid idea
Can't even get the police to attend burglaries or attempted stabbings, they're too busy issuing covid fines and warning people for offensive language online
@@Ajs_1988 in my country everygame with referees has to have a cop (the club pays) only in u11 that you dont need cops
Great subject but such bad editing!! No spirit left... A shame.
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referees are cops