Seeking Mutual Respect

Situations like this (picture) should exist in the local scenario of football. Coaches or team officials and the match officials should not have any grudge or prejudice over each other's roles and responsibilities. Referee should not think that the players and team officials are always sceptical over their decisions, unsporting or are always questioning whatever decisions made. The team officials also should not be thinking that the referees are always bias, one-sided, picking on him or his players or always too harsh on the players.
Respecting and understanding each other duties, roles and responsibilities will establish the correct frame of mind to accept each other strengths and weaknesses. Understanding that the coach has a heavy burden to bear if the team do not win or produce a good performance (as they area answerable for their results), the stress the coach is undergoing when his team is trailing, the position the coach is when he viewed the incident and the anxiety they are undergoing will put the referee in a better position to judge and decide better. Coach should know that if their player can make mistakes, the referee also has the potential to make mistake. Making mistakes is part and partial of the game but making mistakes at the expense of the team or changing the results of the match is considered as unacceptable and the match official concern shall be dealt with accordingly. Minor error or mistake in making decisions are influenced by many factors like, positioning, angle of view, recognition and interpretation of the incident, anxiety, stress and many other factor do affect the referees decisions. The fact that coaches think that the referee is on bribe or bias should not be present in the mind at all. Otherwise, any decisions made by the referee will be seen as wrong. Good decisions, actions or advantage played by the referee should be commended and received warmly. The assistant referees are in a better to judge offside or goal line decisions than the coaches who are standing in the technical area. Thus what ever decisions made should be accepted sportingly. The picture above,Coach: do you want a drink ref? Referee (smiling): No! thank you but I need you to sit down.
Referee should feel free to be able to be engaged in small conversation or exchange of word with the players or team officials but not in a sarcastic manner. Respecting each other's duties and roles and respecting each other actions will put the game at a higher level towards professionalism.