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COVID has taught us that football is flat and boring to watch on TV without fans. And TV is where the money in football comes from.

  Perhaps one of the biggest lies we are told is, ‘sport should be sport and not political’. But organised sports competitions have pretty much always been political. In Ancient Greece, a truce was declared every four years so athletes from each city-state could travel unmolested to the temple of Zeus at Olympia. It’s no coincidence that the only times the modern Olympics haven’t been held was during both World Wars.   

FIFA aborts Beckenbauer bribery prosecution Beckenbauers reputation has taken a hit from repeated allegations of foul play as a football administrator. Keystone / Barbara Gindl The world governing body for football, FIFA, says it has run out of time to prosecute Franz Beckenbauer and two others for allegedly paying bribes in the build up to the 2006 World Cup. This content was published on February 26, 2021 - 11:48 February 26, 2021 - 11:48 swissinfo.ch/mga FIFA’s adjudicatory chamber, which ...