There is a parent at your child's club who shouts at every game. Their own child. Teammates. The opposition. The referee. Sometimes it is loud encouragement. Often it is angry instruction. Occasionally it is something worse, and the rest of the sideline goes quiet for a moment, and nobody quite looks at each other.

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