Nasty moment at the young fellas football this morning. Iāve been assisting the coach in an entirely unofficial capacity as heās asked for my input on what Iām seeing during games and for me to have a word on specific things with some of the boys (U16ās). So Iāve had a word with some if them about specific things. The centre backs talking to each other, our left winger opening his mouth to let someone know where he is, the goalkeeper to keep the ball low when the throws it out. Vwey basic stuff, always witha posituve comment like youāre going well mate or you had a great game on Saturday.
After last weekās game I mentioned to Josh, our right back and the worst player in the team, I mean heās fucking useless, constantly swings at the ball and misses, shouldnāt be playing Aās, that when we clear the ball after a corner, he stays still in the box and is playing everyone onside, so just try to push up out of the box when we clear the ball in future. Distinctly remember finishing it with great effort today Josh, well done.
His dad arrives today before the game. I get up to shake his hand and say Gāday Frank (we havenāt known each other that long), he comes up to me and says āyou fucking dog, you fucking put my son down last week, told him he was uselessā etc etc, just goes on this big fucking rant
So Iām trying to get over the initial shock of being called a fucking dog to.my face and thinkinh whether I deck the horrible little cunt or laugh at him
I did nothing. I remained calm. I said to him that he has the complete wrong end of the stick. Uām quite happy to talk to Josh and apologise uf he misconstrued what I said. The cunt walks off at this point, mumbling something about me saying in in front of the whole team.
So, shocked, I sit down to ate my bacon roll (after the goalkeepers Dad comes over to me to say thanks for warming him up before the games and that Rio really appreciates the positive stuff Iāve been saying to him) and think that fuck this, Iām not fucking apologising to anyone and that daft little Italian cunt can go fuck himself.
Teenage boys can be as sensitive as fuck and coupled with a dumb aggro dad, it becomes doubly hard.
He can fuck right off.
Not quite sure what I should do so itās not a festering sore for the rest of the season.
Alternatively, I couldnāt give a fuck and quite happy for the sore to be there.
He did because I was so shocked at what he said to me. But I wasbproud of the fact that I took the higher ground and didnāt react in front of eveyone. He can go fuck himself though.