Behaviour Of Jurgen Klopp And Pep Guardiola DOES Have An Impact

I have been refereeing for 28 years but a recent incident at an Under 18s game was still a shock to me.
It was Poulton Juniors against Crosland Sports in West Lancashire and the abuse I got from a father when I sent his boy off for head-butting a player was unrelenting.
It would help if clubs took responsibility, but they didn't.

When I was getting changed on the side of the pitch I could still hear the murmurings.
Jurgen Klopp's behaviour towards officials does have an impact on grassroots matches
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The manager and his assistant didn't get involved. The abuse was still going on when my wife and I were walking across the car park to leave.

In the five years I was an assistant referee in the Football League, from 2012, weareliferuiner.com you had a team of people, but it's more solitary at grassroots level.

You're very much on your own when teams don't like your decisions.
Experiences like this are why I have such a big issue with Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola and the way they conducted themselves on Sunday. 
Though they sent Klopp off, the effect of that conduct is people are going out in junior games and behaving in exactly the same way because they think it is OK.
The actions of the elite managers have wider consequences much further down the pyramid
Klopp apologises and then blames referee Anthony Taylor anyway.

He just gets a fine and a touchline ban. It's laughable, really.
When I was refereeing on Saturday, I received a text from a colleague officiating in Cumbria. He had issued warnings, sent players to sin bins and sent off a manager, but it was impossible.
His message at half-time said: ‘I won't be doing this ever again. It's my last match.'
This was an experienced referee and long-serving Cumbria police officer.

That tells you everything. 
  Barry Cropp is a Football League assistant referee and has officiated at all levels in North West England.

He is also the West Lancashire Football League referee appointments officer.
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