As I always reference my refereeing… it’s like when fans yell at you for stuff for they don’t understand the rules. If they understood the rules… they would be fine and not yell.
I worked the line of a game a few weeks ago and did not call an offside the fans thought I should call. I was harrassed the rest of the game because the parents thought they knew the rules better than I did.
The irony… one of the players on the team that was “agrieved” plays with my son on his travel soccer team. His dad was complaining at practice on the call and told me the linesman didn’t know the rules. I told him the linesman definitely knew the rules because I was the linesman.
He then proceeded to tell me I got the call wrong and he had proof as he got it on video. I told him to show it to me… explained the rule and how the player who scored was onside while the player who was offside was not influencing the play… and then the mf’er told me… “yeah… I still don’t think that was the correct call.”
I hate parents of players who are ignorant to the rules.