About sports
• In the era of millionaire sportsmen and million-dollar payouts for sporting successes, winning has become paramount.
1. Lose a match and you could lose your job.
2. Lose a match and sponsors and backers also lose faith in you.
• Former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly, in 1981, famously said: "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that."
1. as Arsenal crashed 1-3 at home to Manchester United, the tragedy was not so much the Gunners' exit from the Champions League football tournament.
Rather, it was the death of Suleiman Omondi, thousands of kilometres away in Kenya.
The Arsenal fan hanged himself after leaving a local pub - distraught that his team, which promised a spectacular show to overturn a 0-1 first-leg deficit, caved in so easily.
Indeed for him, winning was the only thing that mattered at the time
• One needed to look only at the reactions of the players to realise what not winning meant to Chelsea players.
1German midfielder Michael Ballack screamed in the face of the referee after he turned down a penalty appeal.
Striker Didier Drogba had to be restrained from following the referee into the dressing room area after his claims were also ignored.
Such violent reactions from players – shows that more than reputation is at stake…
IS SPORTS MORE ABOUT MONEY AND NATIONAL REPUTATION THAN ANYTHING ELSE?
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