Ban it!

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If a political party or a substance does more harm than good, then states sometimes ban them. Why is the same not done with sport? I would start with football
There are some sports whose enthusiasts are not mostly involved in organising brawls or trashing entire districts. You sometimes hear of sportspeople whose burning ambition is not just to win lucrative advertising contracts but also to achieve mastery in things, other than tax evasion. My brother-in-law even claims that he attended a match in which the result hadn’t been fixed in advance many weeks before. But my brother-in-law is a mythomaniac, and besides it was a dodge ball game played by nursery school children. Meanwhile the media (the credible sort) regularly publish reports about criminals (who are misleadingly called coaches or referees) who have decided who plays, who wins and who makes decent money over a glass of whisky. So why spend billions on maintaining this pathetic façade? Perhaps for a young Israeli or Palestinian to be able to meet on the same pitch in a FIFA advertising extravaganza? Football seems to be the most tarnished of all sports, but it is by no
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