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McLaren's Foot in Mouth award

Former England manager Steve McClaren has won a national award this week. Unfortunately for the recently-fired football ‘supremo’, the prize is for speaking nonsense.

McClaren scooped the Plain English Campaign‘s Foot in Mouth award for a comment about Wayne Rooney: “He is inexperienced, but he’s experienced in terms of what he’s been through.”

BAA received a Golden Bull award for its “passenger shoe repatriation area” sign, found at Gatwick airport in the place where shoes are security screened.

Steve Jenner, a spokesman for the campaign, which works to stamp out unclear official information, said: “People need to think about what they are saying because most of the time they just don’t make sense. It just isn’t necessary and shouldn’t be done.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .