Last season was my first season, so I learnt a lot. I coach u-12s this season.

One thing that caught me off guard was a couple of occasions when an opposition coach tried to coach my team members. On one occasion, in a friendly advising my defender to move further up the pitch for a corner and on another trying to encourage my players who were discouraged about something or other (e.g. not wanting to play the friendly.)

On both occasions I'd like to stress that the advice was delivered very pleasantly, and was very well meant and delivered in an appropriate way.

However, at a gut level I felt it was really off. Hard to explain. A bit like when a well meaning stranger comes up to your own kids when they are crying or wherever whilst you are trying to parent and tries to cheer them up. And you want to tell them to *** out.

Any thoughts on the etiquette of this sort of thing? I do think it's not something I would ever do out of respect for the other coach - its their team and they wouldn't want me interfering.