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Volunteers deserve our support, not abuse

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If an adult can’t watch a children’s sporting fixture without hurling abuse at referees, rival spectators or coaches — and indeed without finding their emotions so charged they end up in a fight — then they really shouldn’t be anywhere near children playing sport.

The often unnamed and unthanked volunteers who make kids’ sport possible throughout our community are among our greatest h...


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