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Originally Posted by bhlloy
Back in the days of everyone getting their scores from the teleprompter at 4:45 in the UK, I think it did actually happen that a team won 10-1, and the BBC just assumed it had been sent over wrong from the copy and told everyone the team had lost 0-1.
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I've heard it said (although never with a clear citation) that the reverse happened after the 1950 World Cup - England were supposed to have beaten the US by nine, according to a few newspapers.