{"id":417708,"date":"2026-05-08T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417708\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T08:57:08","slug":"how-to-behave-on-the-sideline-at-winter-whistle-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/417708\/","title":{"rendered":"How to behave on the sideline at winter whistle sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 60 percent of coaches and referees in Auckland report inappropriate behaviour at least once or twice a season, according to Love Their Game, a group of Auckland sports organisations that have banded together to improve the issue. Last year, eight regional sports organisations joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lovetheirgame.org.nz\/\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Love Their Game. <\/a>This year, close to 20 different sports are onboard including Athletics Auckland, Surf Life Saving Northern Region and Auckland Golf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About 60 percent of coaches and referees in Auckland report inappropriate behaviour at least once or twice a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-417708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}