KENT FA chief exectuive Darryl Haden speaks about violence in grassroots football

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00:00So I think there has been an increase in kind of incidents reported,

00:03but this is proportionate to the increase of participants

00:06that are playing a game.

00:07So I think, you know, we have over 60,000 players

00:11that play football each weekend in Kent.

00:14So we have to kind of take this in context.

00:18I think we've also seen improvements in the reporting process.

00:23The people kind of have got better confidence in reporting it.

00:27But I think the visibility around the process of reporting

00:31and any kind of discipline issues has been improved.

00:36And we've also got people on the sideline that are challenging behaviours.

00:39It's not just the referee that reports this.

00:41Other people from around the pitch are reporting as well.

00:45But like I said, yes, there's been a slight increase,

00:48but it's in line with the participation increases.

00:53And we kind of need to take it a little bit into context

00:55because of the amount of football that's being played

00:57across the Kent each weekend.

00:58And we're going to take it a little bit into context.

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