Hello,
I am relatively new to umpiring. The reason for the latter being that most of my umpiring has been at low level club games, where taunts directed at the umpires have been particularly offensive. Consdering that I am a volunteer, if players from my own club make comments on the field that are of a personal nature, how should it be handled?
I can see that there are many instances of dissent with players abusing umpires with profane name calling, does the same apply if the abuse is of a more personal nature?
Things to the effect of:
"you (directed at umpire) shouldn't have a whistle"
"(other teams name) should thank (umpires name) for scoring that goal"
"who gave you a whisle"
"you (directed at umpire) should just go home" (I had played the match prior) and after the game:
"you (directed at umpire) cost us the game"
When all and any of these have been said to me as umpire, I have found them personally offensive, and I have never heard anyone say this to umpires in games that I am playing. How should this be handled?
Please help.
Thanks,
I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.
References:http://www.fieldhockeyforum.com/threads/players-making-dissent-and-abuse-personal.40310/