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But this is about creating an environment where the children can learn and develop their skills and enjoy the game without the pressure of having to get a result and being concerned with three points for winning, and the fact that someone has to win and someone has to lose.

Socialism at its best. "We are ALL equal in every way. No need to compete or try hard; no matter what you do it will never be better or worse than your neighbor's effort." But the people who make these asinine rules...well, they are more equal than you are.

i say we give the under eights bats to bash each other over the head with. Last kid alive wins. That'll teach 'em the importance of competition, and that the only thing that mattters is winning.

It'll also help weed out the weak ones and create the super strong master race we are looking for.

Whoa! Put the pins back in your hinges Anon.

I don't think keeping score and recognizing a winning team in soccer equates to the culling of children to craft a master race.

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One thing I'll say about children and competition: I have cycled 3 boys through all the sports, from little league, lacrosse, soccer, b-ball, etc. No matter what the scoring rules devised by the adults (and this type of crap happened in my neck of the woods also) THE KIDS ALWAYS KNEW WHO WON AND WHO LOST!!!!!!!!!! Same with banning toy guns- boys will use sticks and go "bang, you're dead"!!

No kidding 'anonymous' - go crawl back under your rock, freaking ignoramous.

The things that go on in the heads of liberals is truly astounding.

look, if we are gonna raise these tykes to go off to some A-rab land to fight terrorists, we've gotta raise to be tough´. None of this pussy liberal shit. They might as well start learning to kill at 8, so by th time they are draft age they already know what it's like. You see all hose soldiers coming back with post traumatic stress disorders? Pussies, joined the army and didn't think they'd actually have to kill anyone! Probablý didn't have a competitive sports program at their schools.

I think school sports programs povide the ideal oportunity to teach the kds about what it means ot be a winner, and to weed out th weak ones that wouldn't be able to kill anyone in the army anyway.

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Sorry to interrupt your psychosis there, Anonymous, but you might want to note that the article is about the UK, not the US, and that neither country has a draft.

You may now resume making a laughingstock of yourself.

Anon, can you point out this apparent missing link between winning in soccer and killing people? You haven't quite explained this to us.

I remember joining the park-n-rec sponsored soccer games when I was young. They never told us the score but we always knew who won.

Third point, the entire point of most games is to win. One of the fundamental laws of life is if you don't give up and work hard you can succeed.

Anon must have lost a lot of kickball games in his youth.

I'm thinking Anon got picked last for... well, everything.

With Liberals like anonymous, there is nothing but extreems. It's either touchy-feely nice-nice, or WORLD-WIDE BLOODBATH!

here's a compromise; all the kids should carry copies of this artical with them and when the whistle blows to start the game, they just sit down and do nothing. When asked why, they should pull out the artical and say "what's the point?".

I seem to remember an episode of 2 1/2 Men, where Charlie is at one of Jake's soccer matches. There's an exchange that goes something like this...

Charlie: "Who's winning?"

SoccerMom: "Oh, we don't keep score..."

Charlie: "Hey kid, what's the score?"

Kid: "3 to 2."

Charlie (to soccer mom): "Guess you should've thought of that before you taught 'em how to count."

While they are doing away with keeping score, why don't they get rid of the clock? And why even bother scheduling teams against each other? Why not let them spontaneously decide whom they wish to play against? But then that might lead to discrimination against certain teams.

They can play until some of the kids get tired and they can leave. If three kids from one team get tired and quit, then three from the other team have to quit playing. When everybody gets tired, they can just have a big group hug and go have organic, dairy-free ice cream.

Uh oh, I may have given them some ideas.

Sorry.

Maybe they should do away with sports entirely, and have the children perform plays in drag extolling the glories of socialist multiculturalism.

I'm trying to come up with a single game - any kind of game; board game, card game, computer game, physical game, word game... any game that someone plays without keeping score and/or attempting to "win".

I can't think of any.

And as Codekeyguy points out; the KIDS KNOW if they've won or lost.

This is the reason Americans play Baseball (a real game - just ask my teenage daughters) and euro's play soccer. Baseball has a high degree of accountability; you get a hit or strike out, catch the ball or drop it. Youth soccer has none of that except the goaltender. So lets not keep score
Avoiding accountability is a trademark of the Left. It comes from their condescending belief in the incapability of others... "You aren't capable, I will do everything I can to prevent you from being held accountable.
Conservatives see you as capable. No further action is required.

Start applying a Capable or Incapable filter to what you hear and read. You will see the Left always sees you or others as incapable.

The lunacy spreads to Ohio. Bad news, JohnMac, this time the nanny-state collectivists are targeting baseball.

I like JohnMac's "capable / incapable" filter idea. In today's world, Benjamin Franklin couldn't get hired as a grocery bagger because he only had two years of "formal" education.

The Perfect Liberal Child --- feminized, confused, living in denial of reality, and demanding that society cater to it.