The team WhatsApp group got out of hand last night. How to reset without escalating.

It is 11pm. You are scrolling back through the team WhatsApp group on the couch. Forty messages tonight. Two of them are sentences that should never have been typed at all, and at least one of them is about another kid in the squad. Your stomach is knotted because you know what tomorrow looks like. Two of the parents who were screaming at each other in the chat will be on the sideline together at 8am training. The kids will pick it up before lunch. A coach will hear about it by Wednesday. Football Australia's National Code of Conduct and Ethics (April 2021) says this chat is governed by the same code as the match itself. Cyber-bullying is named in the Code. So is the club's liability for what its supporters say. So is your right to report. Here is the four-step reset that puts the chat back on its feet without escalating, and the exact line to send tonight before the kids wake up.