The cardinal sin in sports what could really wreck it is not cheating to win which has gone on forever but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed they're no different from movies they're scripted.
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The other two things are… well I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees and the more romantic the better.