It's 10:30 on a Saturday morning and already your beloved angels are down 5:0. What is a coach to do? Should referees and leagues have plans in place to save young children from large score lines or should the game be allowed to find its own winners and losers? I've seen some coaches advocate that the team that is currently winning should be asked/forced to play in ways that make the game "fairer" for the sake of the other players. You know the sort of thing, twenty passes before scoring, play with weaker foot etc. This seems like a noble attempt to spare some children's blushes but sometimes I wonder if all it actually does is coddle the ego of the watching parents. The nature of club and league football at really young ages seems to create the problem not over zealous coaches. Although I've seen that also. One thing I'm sure about though is this issue is not about DEVELOPMENT. It gets mixed up with "well this is a grea