Home And Away | Book must be thrown at ‘The Professor’ Arsene Wenger if the kids are to learn respect
When push comes to shove, pugnacious Arsenal boss must be given lengthy ban to stop verbal and physical abuse of officials at all levels
Hell hath no fury like an under-12 junior football team wrongly flagged offside by a middle-aged dad roped into running the line for a Sunday morning fixture.
Eleven-year-olds know the offside rule like the back of their hands because they have been raised on the Fifa video game series.
Test their knowledge at your peril. Their high-pitched voices will let it be known with the all the authority of a pride of adolescent lions that you are a buffoon bringing shame on the dad class.
Highly embarrassing though it is, what can come next is unexpected, uncalled for, wholly unacceptable and must be stamped out.
Because nothing puts the fear of God into anyone voluntarily facilitating the game’s bedrock Sunday league contests than a bunch of other dads/guardians wading into officials with all the menacing thuggery of Colombian drug-cartel foot soldiers.
