The new football and rugby seasons had barely opened when both
sports were thrown immediately into controversy. This is of
no real surprise, since bipolar histrionics and hyperbole are the
stock-in-trade of tribal team affiliations. But serious violence at
a West Ham game was a different order of ignominy. Equally, rugby’s
Bloodgate scandal, which involved a bullied player ripping a gash
into his own mouth to escape detection as a cheat, did not endear
competitive exercise to …
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