Ooooh, that cloning is bad! Interested to know why it was even done?! I don't think it should be done, even if rules didn't prohibit, but since it was done, why do such a bad job that is so obvious to see?!!
I photographed some footy a couple of weeks ago, went to media room to send a couple of pics off and a bloke came over to have a nosey. He looked at one image of a goal being scored, though I had a celebrating player, keeper on the floor looking p***ed off etc, but no ball (it was just out of shot in the back of the net). He said 'That'd be a good one if it had a ball in it', I said yes it would but oh well. He said 'just stick one in from another photo, that's what we used to do when I was picture editor at xxxxxx newspaper (local paper).'
I was a bit shocked that he claimed they used to do that. Could have been talking rubbish though...