I have refereed rec and high school soccer in TN for 7 years. I have noticed that some of my worst dissent has come from other soccer officials when acting in the role of coach or player. And of course we always have the loudmouth along the sidelines who tells us from 10 feet away that he is a referee back home and that we are really hopeless.
I gave up my playing days prior to becoming a ref and frankly have little insight into why a ref morphs into such a problem when he takes the whistle off. Is it because he knows the rules but has forgotten the part about applying them impartially?
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