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Educator calls foul on players' language
A British educator wants cursing by soccer players banned from daytime television, a suggestion derided by the BBC.
Manchester United star Wayne Rooney was recorded using 10 obscenities in a minute during an exchange with a referee last month. TV broadcasters estimated the 19-year-old player may have used as many as 100 swear words during the Feb. 1 game in which Man United beat Arsenal 4-2.
Martin Ward, deputy general secretary of the Secondary Heads Association, called the behavior of Rooney and many English soccer players "very childish."
"Such incidents should not be shown until after the 9 p.m. watershed, and preferably not at all," Ward said Sunday in a speech in Brighton, England.
"It's making it more difficult to help our young children grow up," he added. He said it made teaching "infinitely more difficult" with students wanting to copy the behavior of famous players.
A BBC television official called the ban a "ridiculous idea."
"It would affect the future of live broadcasting as we know it," BBC director of sport Peter Salmon told the Daily Mail.
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