My friend and officiating colleague Jim Leibel sent me a link to an interesting story today in the Washington Post about a youth soccer team in Maryland. Because of poor parental behavior, all of the parents and fans from one of the teams had to watch a game with binoculars. Their own soccer association punished all the parents and fans by making them watch two games from at least 100 yards behind the sideline. This punishment was due to prior behavior against the referee. There are times I wouldn’t mind moving Parents Row back and just let the kids play. It’s all about them anyway. Take three minutes and read the story from the link below:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042003542.html?wpisrc=newsletter

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