Abuse at youth football games points to deeper issues with the parents

More than 700 children missed out on playing football on the last weekend of August after the Central Scotland Football Association used disciplinary proceedings to stop hundreds of games (Image: Richard Boyle)

IT’S only a game. No rational adult could argue otherwise about a “Fun 4s” match, in which kids aged five to seven run around small pitches with mini goals for 10 minutes and no-one bothers about the offside rule.

Yet incredibly it is these innocent wee games that are bringing out the very worst behaviour in adults.