Gulf Times: “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy and disregard of all rules. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
Once again, George Orwell supplies the words which appear so prescient as a description of events now unfolding - in this case the decision of General Musharraf to invoke his country’s honour in defending the actions of the Pakistan cricket team, who refused to take the field after being accused of “ball-tampering” by the Australian umpire Darrell Hair.
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