It was perhaps some comfort for Micah Richards, who had to be stretchered off moments before the goal with a headinjury and was later taken to hospital with concussion after clattering into his team-mate Nigel de Jong when trying to clear the ball.
The ban, which Earl Beatty Public School put into effect last week, was not even prompted by an injury to a child, but rather came after a parent suffered a concussion from being hit in the head with a soccer ball.