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Parents Behaving Badly

Parents Warned Over Bad Behavior At Soccer Game

by joelnet on October 24th, 2005

vinnie_jones.jpgThere are a lot of differences between American and English football (the English version: much more “foot”, much less steroids), but there’s one sad similarity - the behavior of a few bad fans/parents. The British news site Biggleswade Today (no, I did not pull that name from a Monty Python skit) reports that some locals are incensed over the boorish behavior exhibited by some parents at a youth football/soccer match/game.

Yeah, we in the States have our share of loser dads taking out their feelings of inadequacy on fellow spectators, players, and refs. But the British can put a classy spin on anything. Here’s how the site puts it: “Coupled with the sight of one of the fathers relieving himself publicly in the dividing hedge, this does little to encourage support of more pitches on the new field – particularly when the pavilion was open and available for such calls of nature and is a public order offence…With such examples is there any wonder some youths are behaving anti-socially.”

Or, in American English: “Dude. Don’t piss on the field. Use the shitter. There’s kids watching, jackass.”

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