And then the question is, who watches the watchers?
Example:
A few weeks ago there was one of those HUGE-ego/little-man guys officiating a game. He had no ARs so he was missing off-sides left and right and we all know how parents react.
At some point, he calls a penalty (which was not, but that's beyond the point). All the parents and coaches protested. He stops, comes to the bench and tells the coach "I don't want to hear it anymore!!". The assistant coach asks "what do you not want to hear anymore?"; so, one of the parents adds his two cents and says "His mistakes! He doesn't want to hear anymore about us pointing out his mistakes!". The ref comes back and sends that parent off.
Up to this moment, even though the ref sucked, everything was fine and he threw out a parent. OK, good.
BUT, as the parent was leaving, the referee started mocking him "you see? that happens because you this or that, blahblah.... and you are an ignorant!!" and all sorts of provocations. The parent didn't take the bait and continued walking towards the parking lot. But another parent heard the referee insults and provocations and took the bait and made the issue way bigger, to the point of other parents ejected, players shown the red card for saying "wow, ref...", etc. All of these would have not happened if the ref just let that one parent go and continue the game. But no! his huge ego told him to provoke and provoke.
I agree there should be zero tolerance, but this doesn't give the ref a license to provoke. And for what I've read in the rules and policies, the league will not move a finger in these cases.
EDIT:
Holy cow!! I just violated the rule 10 of the code of conduct. Well, socal soccer league, bite me.
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Don't you guys find this rule stupid? If I can say a politician, profesional sports player, singer, actor, etc. sucks online and social media, I am going to say it when a referee sucks too! What is this? the North Korea Soccer League?