Is it just me, or is the amount of (for want of a better word) 'sledging' increasing? I had a youth game at the weekend and from the first scrum players started hurling abuse at each other.
I stopped play, called the main culprits (one of whom was a captain) and the other captain over and told them to shut up, but there was this low-level abuse going on throughout the game. Fortunately it didn't escalate into anything more.
Does anyone have any good ways of dealing with this? Since both sides were always doing it I didn't feel I could penalise one or the other and was loathe to go straight from no penalty to two yellow cards and I also don't like threatening to hand out yellow cards in case I don't think the next offence really needs one.
Thanks in advance
I stopped play, called the main culprits (one of whom was a captain) and the other captain over and told them to shut up, but there was this low-level abuse going on throughout the game. Fortunately it didn't escalate into anything more.
Does anyone have any good ways of dealing with this? Since both sides were always doing it I didn't feel I could penalise one or the other and was loathe to go straight from no penalty to two yellow cards and I also don't like threatening to hand out yellow cards in case I don't think the next offence really needs one.
Thanks in advance