SOCCER

Sunday we were in Bodkins Ohio for the granddaughter's final regular season game. For a moment it seemed as though no one would get to play since the referee did not show up. However one of our moms is a soccer coach and the other team agreed to let her ref. Kudos for them. I am not an expert on soccer rules by any stretch of the imagination but she seemed to do a very good job and for once no one on either side seemed to yell at the ref. However I cannot believe the "grandfathers" of these kids. At one of the baseball games this summer a grandfather went off on the ref and almost started fights among the parents and then Sunday again a grandfather started to cross the line. Just at the end of the game a ref showed up. When one mother questioned him, he said he was there for a 4:00 game (it was not our game). The grandfather did not hear that and just assumed he was the absent ref and started shouting to go home, not needed etc. I mean really!!!! Do these old men lose their perspective after a certain age or do they just think that being old gives them the right to say, act and do whatever they want? The girls lost 3-2 but played well considering that they had no subs while the other team could sub out each player all day. It was a spectatular October day however. It was great to be outside.