I've seen some awful behaviour from coaches' kids on the pitch, particularly elite programmes as players reach their teens.

In the juniors, most parents are just happy for anyone to coach the team rather than themselves. Often someone with any interest in football finds themselves coaching juniors.

As they age and some kids want to start clowning around at training, I won't hesitate to give them marching orders/suspensions for one scrap of disrespect.

My belief is that most coaches are volunteers. Hence, anyone disrespecting a coach who has undergone coach education in their own time and gives up their time to coach kids on a weekly basis, should be appreciated by them - and parents.

I was once teaching at one school, where I had no active role in their associated football club. I had some time to kill and watched about 10 teams train one night.

I was appalled at the disrespect shown by many kids to their coaches. The next day I held a meeting for all football players in the school and read them the riot act about respecting their coaches.

What sorts of experiences have others had?