I WAS the Ref yesterday for my lad's under 11's match. What a fucking nightmare.
One of the opposition lads went to clear the ball and his boot flew off. Play carried on but he then tried to play on with no boot but in attempting to tackle a forward, had his toe trodden on. One of our lads then scored and when I awarded the goal, the opposition manager started shouting and bawling. The way I saw it though was that I can't blow up because a player hasn't tied his laces properly.
The manager then started instructing his players, at the top of his voice, to kick our players. They're fucking 10 for God's sake!
It was made complete when, with the score at 7-1 to our lads, their captain punched our attacker during open-play in the box and I gave a penalty. I'd already given the opposition 2 penalties but they blared one over the bar.
I think my dad (who was watching my lad for the 1st time) saw that I'd had enough and stopped chanting "the Referee's a wanker!".