You are in fact feeding the bear by not carding him. That lets him know he can keep going. Yellow card and neuter the bear instead.
It's baseball not soccer but Blue Jays former manager John Gibbons did a Q&A on Reddit and dropped this. Joe West was an umpire for 43 years and almost 5,500 games, the most all time. @msilverstein47 since you're unwilling to throw out a jackass coach, drop this one on him next time he pulls his antics and see what his reaction is.
I'm AR2 on U17M Final. One of the dads is sitting on his knees whilst showing a lot of emotion. Their team is winning 1-0 but want the nail in the coffin. As the team dribbles the ball up the pitch, shoots and misses, the dad falls to the front like he's praying but with a happiness disposition. At that exact time he does that, I walk by and I immediately say: "You don't need to pray to me, I'm just a referee." That got a big, raucous laughter from those within earshot.
Last weekend at State Cup, I saw an individual walking around pumping himself up like he was about ready to deadlift 450 pounds 5 times. It was the dad of a U16B player. I should have taken a video of the guy. Then whenever someone asks me how I can stay so calm and emotionless while watching my son’s games, I can then show them the video and say “So I don’t look like this guy.”
Adult rec indoor game on Sunday. Black shoots on gray's goal. The goalkeeper dives to make the save, but the ball bounces off him hits one of the posts and his teammate before going into the goal. His players were saying stuff like "Don't worry," "We were just unlucky," etc. As I was writing down the score, I asked his team, "Who should I say scored that goal? Physics?" Everyone laughed.
This weekend, there were many games in my area, but even fewer referees than normal because of Mother’s Day. For my games, we only had a center ref and an AR. During my u-18 game, a player looked like he was offside so I blew my whistle and made the call. The team started complaining. I said, “Yell at my assistant. He made the call.” The player said, “But there’s no linesman on that side.” A few seconds later, he got my point and said,”Oh, I see now.” There were not complains the rest of the game.