players, spectators and do you find you get a different sort of abuse given that you are a female referee? yeah, you get the abuse from the parents and players, the managers and spectators, whatever. you get the abuse from everyone. a lot of the time it depends on the team and the club, what it will come from mostly. from a female refs perspective, i feel i sometimes get less abuse than others in some games, depending on.in female games you get a lot less abuse and in male games, older people give you more respect, the younger people do not as much and they see you more as a target. the older people respect that you are a female ref more. you say some of that abuse comes from parents who i assume are watching their children play and you are refereeing so what sort of example does that set, if the parents are sending
just under 300 said they d been physically abused by spectators, players or managers. the mere presence of them, the fact that somebody sees the device there, makes them sort of think twice about their behaviour really. these really are just there to explore whether, you know, it improves the level of participant behaviour within the grassroots game and also give the referee that added level of safety and security for them refereeing. one of the four leagues in the country where the trial is being rolled out is middlesbrough, where19 year old referee 0llie cairney has already used the equipment in matches. i m a player, you re the referee, i come up to talk to you and you worry that i might start abusing you. if i feel threatened in any way, i ll press that button and then they can actually see the player, their face on the screen. do you think also if the player sees themselves on that screen, that will stop them from shouting or pushing you or anything like that? 100%, yeah. i think
who might want to abuse them. jane dougall, bbc news, middlesbrough. millie wheeler is a referee at devon county fa here in the uk, and has been refereeing for the past two years and is in favour of using bodycams. i think it would really help. i think it would slow abuse so much. at the minute when i referee i get a lot of abuse on the pitch, i wake up on a saturday morning and i dread going to the game because i know the abuse i get, it happens every game. it s more common for me to get abuse in a game than away from the game but i think the cameras will help and show people how bad it actually is. whether that be the coaches, the players or the spectators that also give the abuse. i wanted to ask you about that, your experiences of a typical game. where is the abuse coming from
behaviour within the grassroots game and also give the referee that added level of safety and security for them refereeing. one of the four leagues in the country where the trial is being rolled out is middlesbrough, where19 year old referee 0llie cairney has already used the equipment in matches. i m a player, you re the referee, i come up to talk to you and you worry that i might start abusing you. if i feel threatened in any way, i ll press that button and then they can actually see the player, their face on the screen. do you think also if the player sees themselves on that screen, that will stop them from shouting or pushing you or anything like that? 100%, yeah. i think they see themselves and they ll probably realise they re in the wrong straightaway and they ll step back from it. and have you actually noticed a difference, then? a little bit, yeah. it s fair enough for them like, come on, ref, it shouldn t be a foul against me, but that s about it, really, that s all they ll