I had the ‘pleasure’ of a u8s tennis fixture today, the wife normally takes my son but it was me today. Fuck me, junior football gets bad press but this was different level. The kids pretty much have to score themselves and make the line calls too. In my sons first fixture his opponents dad took it on himself to score (first to 7 and put out a cone to show the score if they got a point). My son won a point to make it 4-1 and the dad went to put out the cone to show this but then put it back so it still showed 3-1. I shouted over to my son to add his point which he did but all very unnecessary.
In his second game against another opponent after a great rally he won it with a great forehand and the little shit called out. Everyone could see it was in but that was that and he took the point. His dad could have easily overruled it but didn’t and I couldn’t really get into an argument about it so just shouted it was a great shot to my son so we all knew!
Certainly an environment for cheats to thrive.