[Football] Wales FA to ban smoking on sidelines of children's footy.

[AmexRuislip]

https://www.faw.cymru/en/news/faw-a...ing-sidelines-childrens-football-games-wales/

I think a presedence will be set here and others will quickly follow suit.

The Football Association of Wales (FAW) and FAW Trust are set to introduce a new policy prohibiting smoking on the sidelines of youth football games across Wales.

The decision by the FAW to introduce a no smoking policy on the sidelines of its small-sided football games is designed to help de-normalise smoking in the eyes of children and prevent them from taking up the habit in later life.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Bad news for the subs, but at least the kids on the pitch will still be able to have a crafty fag when there's a break in play, so, every cloud I guess.

 

[keaton]

I find it odd people will smoke on the side of kid's football match in the first place

 

[Marshy]

ive coached boys football for years and never seen a parent smoking, kind of surprised it isn't already a thing. But anyway, good stuff.

 

[BNthree]

I find it odd people will smoke on the side of kid's football match in the first place

As someone that spends a lot of my weekends carting my son about for matches I don't think I've ever seen anyone smoking while watching a kids match. Maybe puffing on a vape thingy but even then that is pretty rare.

 

[AmexRuislip]

As someone that spends a lot of my weekends carting my son about for matches I don't think I've ever seen anyone smoking while watching a kids match. Maybe puffing on a vape thingy but even then that is pretty rare.

I suppose Tom Jones 'Green Green Grass of Home gives a whole new meaning

 

[schmunk]

What kind of dickhead smokes (at the side of children's match)...?

 

[Gwylan]

ive coached boys football for years and never seen a parent smoking, kind of surprised it isn't already a thing. But anyway, good stuff.

Same here. I've coached kids rugby and cricket for several years and have not seen a parent smoking on the sidelines - it would be a strange thing to do

 

[Hamilton]

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

FAW got a bit too much spare time on their hands at the moment by any chance?

 

[Guinness Boy]

When I coached Under 9s the club specifically asked parents not to smoke on the sidelines even though none ever had.

 

[BNthree]

When I coached Under 9s the club specifically asked parents not to smoke on the sidelines even though none ever had.

Maybe they thought your coaching style might stress the parents out too much??

 

[zefarelly]

What about Haddock? and kippers?

 

[Guinness Boy]

Maybe they thought your coaching style might stress the parents out too much??

You must have watched one of our games

 

[Poojah]

Bad news for the subs, but at least the kids on the pitch will still be able to have a crafty fag when there's a break in play, so, every cloud I guess.

I think it's a positive sign of how things have changed, but when I was 16 or 17 in the early noughties, I remember playing in a cup final for my sixth form team in what was quite a big game for us. Rather than warming up, I remember most of the team (including myself) just stood in a circle chain smoking fags in the run-up to kick-off. The same ensued at half-time.

There's a team photo still kicking around on the photo gallery of the local newspaper somewhere, and a couple of the lads have still got a tab in their mouth even then.

I personally haven't smoked in years and I don't miss it a jot, but it seems very rare to see young people smoking these days which is very encouraging. It seems to have lost its illusion as a 'cool' and 'hard' thing to do (something I completely bought into in my yoof, btw).

 

[hart's shirt]

Wales FA to ban smoking on sidelines of children's footy.

It might take a while to filter through.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I don't know a youth football club down here in Cornwall where smoking is allowed anywhere on the site. I suppose there's one somewhere but haven't seen it

 

[SoggyCabbages]

Not sure I've ever seen someone smoking at a youth game either. Seems to be a virtue-signalling move.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Smoking no way.....what about a pint.

 

[macky]

Do the Welsh FA own the land that The kids play on then ?