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from BBC Sport

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Sorry, what was the score again?
A local newspaper has been banned from reporting on junior football matches after describing a 29-0 defeat as a "trouncing".
The Sheffield and District Sunday League claimed children would have been "humiliated" if they read about the heavy loss suffered by their team.

And it accused the Derbyshire Times of breaking its golden rule which states that no publication should report defeats of 14-0 and above.

Times editor Mike Wilson insisted they were unaware of the 14-goal limit and they would not be adhering to it in the future.

He said: "It's pointless. If you play competitive sport, the scoreline's an important part of it.

OK so I feel it is morally wrong to report kids footy teams getting a bit of a drubbing, however, is this ban enforcable?

Don't think I agree it's wrong, actually.

There is a rule in my local indoor footy league where if one team beats another by more than 10 goals, the league writes your team a letter warning them that future routs will be punishable with fines or point deductions.

We once put our goalkeeper out as centre forward when this possibility loomed for us.

Silly really though as we are playing in an adult league and losing is just as much a part as winning - the scoreline just reminds us how much better/worse we were on the day but has no lasting meaning roll

When I was doing sports writing on the local kids we weren't allowed (company rule, not MHSAA) to write anything derogatory about the kids.

Now consider when the local high school football record read in three seasons played 27 won 0. that's a tad difficult to describe it as anything other than crap.

Consider that the local community doesn't want it's kids portrayed as crap, and they are the consumer....... it makes more financial sense than anything else.

However I was just wondering on the merits of someone banning a journalist from a public park.
I don't think that's enforcable.

The Plymouth Evening Herald was banned for a couple of weeks from PAFC's Home Park years ago, after they wrote articles slamming the (then) Chairman, Daniel McCauley (w*nker)

So they hired a truck with a tall cherry picker, parked it outside the ground (which is owned by the city who had no such ban) and the reporters and photographer covered the game from up there.

Very bizarre photos and reports and it proved a point so they were allowed back in after a couple of weeks of silly-ness.

How about a 'closely fought' 29-0 defeat?

A narrow 29 nil loss.

"A slim 29-0 loss" would be quite flattering if they were all pie-eaters, as well as crap at footy.

Why shouldn't they be humiliated if they lost 29-0? THey played like pants and the players and boss should feel the heat. Or maybe it was 29 fluke goals.....maybe 'unlucky 29-0 defeat..',....'unfortunate 29 goal loss'..

Given these standards should anybody be reporting the W. Indies cricket series ??

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