I am sure that I am going to hurt someone's feelings with this post. I am not a perfect referee and miss stuff in a game, but I have far more training on the LOTG and how to implement them than 95 percent of the parents sitting on the sidelines. This is focused on the youth game. Most spectators (parents) do not have a clue when comes to the LOTG and how they are interpreted and applied. One of the dumbest things I hear spectators yell is "you are calling more fouls on team (insert team name)" or "call it the same for both teams." No two teams play the same, foul the same or want the same fouls called against them. I had a game where the red team was fouling the crap out of the blue team and the blue team is committing no fouls, and what do I hear from the sideline, "come on ref you are calling everything against red" or "call it both ways ref." Then the red a red player starts to loudly yell at me the same BS said by the parents and I have to issue him a Yellow card for dissent. Then a red player commits a reckless tackle and I give that player a Yellow card. The parents then yell "Let them play." I think, "Idiot, if I let them play someone is going to get hurt." Then a red player (the one that got the Yellow for dissent) gets fouled in the Penalty area (10 yards in front of me) and before I can blow the whistle for the PK the red player grabs the blue player by his collar and throws him to the ground. Now we have a second Yellow and ejection for the red player and a PK for the red team. What do I hear from the sidelines, "you can't give a yellow card to a player that got fouled" and "Ref, you don't know what the f*#k you are doing." I call the Red coach onto the field and ask him to remove the parent wearing the blue Dodgers hat and explain to the coach what happened with the foul and card. Coach is calm and says thank you for the explanation and sends the parent to the parking lot. PK gets converted and I blow the whistle for halftime 10 minutes later only to have the referee coordinators waiting for me and telling me there were complaints that I don't have control of the game. I find out later from the field marshal that it was the parents that complained. So, yes the referee associations and coordinators do listen to complaints even though most are not valid complaints. The Referee coordinators watch the first 15 minutes of the second half and after the game came over to get the two Red card reports (red team got a second Red card for DOGSO). They said from what they saw I did a good job. SO, parents PLEASE just shut the F up and just cheer for your team since most of you clearly do not have a clue when it comes to the LOTG and their application.