It is a shame that people have to be told to have respect to volunteers in our world as my parents taught me respect, love and understanding to others. A game is just only a game: win, lose or draw. There should always be the same respect for officials from visitors and players at any level of sports inclusive of junior sporting events.
If a team loses, a team loses and if a team wins, a team wins: that is the way it is - but because our children are very competitive. children can be upset with loses and excited with wins.
You know I can tell you a true story that happened to me in high school - this may make you feel better, I was in my last year of high school in a school that was 'Rugby Union' dominated - so I joined the School's 2nd Eleven Soccer Team. Well, our team was made up of young men that mostly wanted to play for the fun of it and a couple played seriously.
I knew I'd never be selected for 1st Eleven and was satisfied which team I was in. Our team lost a majority of games. I remember that one of my co-players kicked the ball into the goal and even if I wasn't at the goal when the ball arrived - the goal would have been claimed by him. Because it skimmed off the top of my thigh into the net - the goal was claimed by myself. He never got upset and everyone came to me as that was our first goal of the season- although we got thrashed 6 to 1 goals. I actually said to him that was his goal - he was quite happy for it to be my goal. Respect to each other. It's funny I was the highest goal scorer at the end of the season with 3 goals.
We were always respectable to officials as they are the ones that made sure the game was played fairly within rules. No one was never upset with them
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