Is a player temporarily without a shoe a safety hazard? I seriously doubt it.
You should not have stopped the game. At the next dead ball, you can delay making it live again and allow the player to collect his shoe or you can permit a substitution. The coach was right about this one.
Why would you allow a coach to comment and whine the entire game? Whack him with a T and be done with it. If he persists in the poor behavior give him another T and send him packing.
He walked all over you because you allowed him to do so.
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