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4. Canadian Soccer Teams Are Playing Without Balls

The greatest thing about this story is, first of all: that headline; and second of all, that even once you get past that to the actual story itself, it€™s still brilliant. Two online sources ran with this, which in turn led to an Australian newspaper running it themselves, based upon a report from Canadian CBC Radio€™s show, This Is That. The gist is that, in order to eliminate over-competitiveness in youth soccer, and in line with previous attempts to do so by removing scoring from the equation, an Ontario soccer association has now removed the ball from play as well. This ensures that €œit€™s absolutely impossible to say 'this team won' and 'this team lost' or 'this child is better at soccer than that child.' We want our children to grow up learning that sport is not about competition; rather it's about using your imagination. If you imagine you're good at soccer, then you are." This Is That is a satirical show aping public radio. This is from the CBC website: €œThis Is That is a current affairs program that doesn't just talk about the issues, it fabricates them. Nothing is off limits--politics, business, culture, justice, science, religion--if it is relevant to Canadians, we'll find out the "This" and the "That" of the story. Each week, hosts Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring introduce you to the voices and stories that give this country character in this 100% improvised, satirical send-up of public radio.€ The only way it€™s possible to make it any clearer that This Is That is not a real current affairs show would be to explain it using puppets. It€™s bad enough that the people who write the news didn€™t get that the story wasn€™t true, but the endless parade of people who shared it on social media as an example of 'how Canada is weird, m€™kay?' Guys. You need to check your nonsense filters, they may be clogged.