Letter: Masking sports results creates UK of also-rans

Letter: The Telford Junior football league has stopped publishing match results for fear of embarrassing the children.

Results are now listed as 1-0 wins or 1-1 draws. This now comes as England's football team limped to a pathetic 2-2 draw in Montenegro, and England's rugby team were humbled by a poor French side at the world cup.

Maybe the political correctness of recent years is now bearing fruit in our sports teams.

Surely trying to tell people that they have done well after they have been roundly thrashed does them no good at all. This course of action merely makes them think that second best is good enough, and no more effort is needed.

This could also explain why standards in our schools are also not what they were in years gone by.

We will eventually become a nation of also-rans if this trend is not reversed.

We need winners in positions of authority, not people who think second best is acceptable.

Shaun Sanders

Muxton