Coach calls for a quiet revolution on the sidelines

Standing alone in the centre-circle, they feel safe from the venom being discharged from the sideline.

They dare not move too close to the crowd that is just waiting for them to make another mistake.

Alarmingly, this is the reality for many young Irish children competing in schoolboy soccer matches up and down the country, but it is not other children doing the taunting: it is grown adults. It is parents.