One member immediately
stressed the importance of having qualified referees and spent several minutes
describing in detail how his son’s team was robbed in a poorly officiated championship
game. This was followed by other stories of injustice on the soccer field. Another
member suggested that they needed to quickly contact the local colleges to see if they
could use their fields. The committee spent more than 30 minutes talking about how
they should screen teams and how much they should charge as an entry fee.