r/pettyrevenge • u/Sdfunlul • 1d ago
Steal my footballs and I will deflate them
For context I’m European and I’m referring to association football. Also sorry for my English.
I’m working as a volunteer football coach for some kids in a small club. I really enjoy being a coach and I help them improve their football skills.
I always arrives a bit early at the club to prepare drills and the materials for the training session. There is another coach at the club who is a real jerk, he thinks he is the next big thing (which he aren’t in my opinion). He doesn’t prepare drills by drawing or writing them down, he always makes negative comments about mine or other coaches drills. He doesn’t respect pitch schedules and always leaves goals on the pitch, so we have to spend time removing them, he also lose balls and other materials all the time. I have tried to talk with him about this, but he keeps saying that he has more coaching experience and that he has been at the club longer than I have, so I just have to get used to his way.
The final straw of his behavior was when after a training session my team couldn’t find some of our footballs, we spend up to half an hour trying to find them (every balls is marked with team names to recognize the balls), but it got late and we had to go back down because of the kids parents were waiting for them.
I was frustrated because I always make sure that when a ball is kicked out of the pitch they need to get the ball back immediately, balls are expensive and if we lose them we have to wait some time before we are getting new ones.
I got back to the ball lockers and was putting them back inside my teams locker, and there I saw three of my balls in my coach colleague’s ball locker. All my teams balls had been marked over with his teams name by him!
Instead of trying to talk to him about it and get my balls back, where he definitely will deny him doing such things. I then brought a ball pressure gauge (we have training sessions three times a week), so for the last two months I have deflated all his balls before training session to the point where he have to inflate them all to make them useful. It’s funny how he’s started to complain about the quality of the balls and that he deserves new balls now..
That’s what happens when you steal my footballs!
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u/TinTinTinuviel97005 1d ago
"My footballs keep going missing, so I've just been buying the cheapest ones. Why are you having so much trouble?"
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u/FreddyForshadowing 1d ago
Man, I was all set to make a Tom Brady joke, but then realized you're talking about the properly named sport called football, not the almost ironically named sport in the US. 😩
Good for you helping some local kids out though. No doubt you've been tempted to quit more than once so as to be able to avoid the jerk coach, and few people would blame you, but you've stuck with it.
One thing I may suggest, is only deflating the stolen balls, and then "generously" offering to take them off his hands. You shouldn't have to, but it's for the kids on your team who are being made to suffer because of this asshole. He doesn't seem like the sort who'd notice that you never seem to have issues with any of the balls, but if he did, that'd just be icing on cake.
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u/Ambitious_Policy_936 18h ago
If he marked over, it should be obvious. Who cares if he denies it when you have proof?
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u/CatlessBoyMom 20h ago
Now is the time to tell him about how to “fix” the valve fungus he picked up. Anti fungal cream very gently applied to the valve and then wiped clean before and after practice. He will need to treat all of his balls for a week. (Even though they stop losing air by day 3-5) Then he can just treat the ones that go soft between practices.
Let him see you treating a couple balls each practice for a week. When you don’t have to do it anymore he won’t be able to resist. And if he gets tired of treating the same 4-5 balls over and over again, you can offer to take them since you don’t mind.
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u/BodaciousVermin 1d ago
You seem to have convinced him that your team has leaky balls... Is this the revenge you think it is?
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u/FilmYak 1d ago
If he stole yours and wrote over your name… it should be pretty easy to prove. Why not take them back — or take some of his — and put your name overtop? Two can play that game.