Worse still, the error would not gone unnoticed had MiD DAY not informed the authorities. Players are given specific jersey numbers to help officials differentiate between them in terms of goals scored, fouls committed, etc. Duplicity of jersey numbers could lead to incorrect information being recorded.

Number of problems: Cathedral & John Connon’s Dishank Shah (left) and Amay Podhar both sport jerseyu00a0No 20 during their MSSA inter-school U-16 Div IV match against St Michael’s u00a0(Mahim) at Azad Maidan yesterday. Pic/ Suresh KKu00a0