A Bath City youth match descended into farce on Monday night after a row over underpants.
Bath had six players ordered off the pitch in the 6-0 defeat to Newport after the referee in charge said some of the team's underpants was deemed to breach FA rules.
Bath manager Billy Clark was among those in trouble with the referee as he was punished for dissent.
The fracas started when Newport grabbed their first goal when two Bath players were off the pitch changing their pants.
"The referee may have been right on a technicality but I cannot believe that when that rule was made," Bath chairman Manda Rigby told This is Bath.
"The intended consequence was that 16 and 17-year-olds should have to change their shorts in public at the side of a pitch. That cannot be the right thing to be done at this level."
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Bath had six players ordered off the pitch in the 6-0 defeat to Newport after the referee in charge said some of the team's underpants was deemed to breach FA rules.
The official was unhappy that some of the Bath players' white underwear was visible below their black shorts. FA rules dictate that underwear should be the same colour as the team's short.
Bath manager Billy Clark was among those in trouble with the referee as he was punished for dissent.
The fracas started when Newport grabbed their first goal when two Bath players were off the pitch changing their pants.
"The referee may have been right on a technicality but I cannot believe that when that rule was made," Bath chairman Manda Rigby told This is Bath.
"The intended consequence was that 16 and 17-year-olds should have to change their shorts in public at the side of a pitch. That cannot be the right thing to be done at this level."
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