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Publishing Football Results does not effect Competitiveness

The Football Association recently asked local FA's not to publish the results of Child Friendly matches. This seems like a simple request but oh no, like everything the FA tries to do it was criticised as much as applauded. More evidence of the seemingly impossible job the games custodians have. In an age when virtually everyone has acknowledged that our National Game needs to evolve it seems that some cant see the wood for the trees. The FA's comments were published in the press and quickly picked up by pundits and ex players and predictably, I've yet to see one positive comment from them and yet coaches Online seem to agree its a good step. So what's the issue? Currently, most County FA's play two phases of fixtures for Under Eleven teams. One Phase is Competitive and one Phase is "Non Competitive". Games in Non Competitive phases can not have results published anywhere. You'll still see teams put their results on Twitter etc but they sho