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No story to publish: wire signal insufficient

The available wire material does not meet Touchline's editorial threshold for a news piece.

MW
·6 May·2 min read
 Quickfire Quiz 113: Can you answer 10 questions in 90 seconds?
Quickfire Quiz 113: Can you answer 10 questions in 90 seconds? Photograph: FourFourTwo

The wire signal received for this item is a reader quiz published by FourFourTwo, comprising ten general football questions presented as a timed interactive format. There is no news event, transfer development, managerial change, match report, or editorial subject of substance on which Touchline can responsibly report.

Touchline's editorial standards require that news pieces be grounded in verifiable facts drawn from the wire. A quiz prompt, however enjoyable as a reader engagement format, does not supply those facts. To write around it would require invention — and that is not something this publication does.

If a substantive story emerges from the same source or subject area, Touchline will cover it at that point.

— Filed by the MatchdayReport desk. Original report at FourFourTwo

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Marcus Wren Marcus writes the longer pieces and the column. Twenty years of byline; the desk's last stop on a story that needs a steadier voice. This piece was sourced from FourFourTwo.

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