The Dad At Under-9s Who Wanted The Referee Sacked For "Bias" Against His Son
72% BELIEVED
CASE FILE #344
FILED: Apr 20, 2026
CLASSIFICATION: Entitled People Stories
WITNESS ON RECORD: akavak
JURY OF 208 READERS HEARD THIS CASE: 149 believed it, 27 had doubts, 32 weren't buying it.
The referee was fifteen years old. He had done a course, he had a whistle, and he was being paid six pounds and given a sausage roll at half time, which in the economy of under-9s football is a fair wage.
The dad — let us call him Kev, because that is not his name and because it fits — was a man in his forties who arrived every Sunday in a coat that cost more than the club's entire kit budget.
His son is a nice kid. Average. Which is a beautiful thing to be at nine, and which Kev experiences as a personal injury.
Kev spent the season on the touchline saying things like "referee, look at him" and "that's a foul, son, learn the game".
The incident: a goal was disallowed, correctly, for offside. Kev came onto the pitch. Onto it. He stood in front of a fifteen-year-old boy and asked him if he "understood the rules of the game he was officiating", and the boy — God, this boy — said, "Yes, sir. Offside. Please leave the pitch."
The dad — let us call him Kev, because that is not his name and because it fits — was a man in his forties who arrived every Sunday in a coat that cost more than the club's entire kit budget.
His son is a nice kid. Average. Which is a beautiful thing to be at nine, and which Kev experiences as a personal injury.
Kev spent the season on the touchline saying things like "referee, look at him" and "that's a foul, son, learn the game".
The incident: a goal was disallowed, correctly, for offside. Kev came onto the pitch. Onto it. He stood in front of a fifteen-year-old boy and asked him if he "understood the rules of the game he was officiating", and the boy — God, this boy — said, "Yes, sir. Offside. Please leave the pitch."
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