SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: In the first week of the season there's been a record number of incidents including allegations of sexual assault, referees abandoning games and dressing rooms being trashed.
Youth football’s new season in Scotland has erupted into violence, vandalism and red cards, the Sunday Mail can reveal.
Top news stories today An email from Central Scotland League secretary Paul Crosbie to hundreds of clubs said: “There are teams who have players, officials and spectators who do not want to behave in the correct manner for children’s/ youth football. “Mass melees on park with police and an ambulance being called; claim of sexual assault by one player to another on the pitch; alleged damage to changing rooms.
We told last week how referees are weighing up strike action after an official was allegedly headbutted and punched during a recent an amateur game in Renfrew. The worst incident saw an under-16s game between Bo’ness United and West Park United, from Bishopbriggs, near Glasgow, explode into violence on August 24.
A player receiving treatment on the touchline was accused of feigning injury and the ref halted the game when the boy and an adult spectator squared up and began shoving each other. “We want the SFA to confront the issue and fast and we will support them in that. How they deal with it will have a major effect on the future of football in Scotland. We mustn’t kid ourselves on that the game is invincible.
One referee – who spoke to the Sunday Mail on condition of anonymity - said: “Most trouble begins on the sidelines, not on the pitch. “Scotland spends so much time talking about how we develop young footballers. It needs to start with the grass roots and getting the bams away from the side of the park.”
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