You did nothing wrong
If they really thought that something was up then you'd be in the back of a coppers van before you could blink. Bastards were just fucking you around.

I advise making a complaint, it might not seem worth the effort but if you push enough then it could easily see them marking time career-wise for up to a year.

Personally if I'd seen my kids had wandered over to join in then I would have commended you (after making sure you had kids there yourself, of course) and probably joined in.

Should be more parents, like you, willing to be a bit more relaxed, the paranoids are killing all the kids fun and not teaching them how to deal with risk.
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Thu 28 Oct 2010, 17:16, 1 reply)

Sense!
You would have been welcomed into my kickabout!
Still, not worth the effort to complain, no names/numbers etc.
It's awful watching parents not get involved just cos their are other peoples kids about. They only want a bit of attention and guidance, we were always proper made up when one of the dads, or even mums joined in with us when we were playing out, made them seem human!
(Unstable-Dan looks like that bloke out of Scream, Thu 28 Oct 2010, 17:29, closed)