Late Tackle

Heroes and villains

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
3 November 2011

CHRIS MARTIN wonders why fair play usually goes out of the window in football

In the modern age football is littered with ‘professionals’ prepared to flirt with the border line of fair play and in some cases go far beyond it (in fact some are so far past that they can’t even see the line any more).
The necessity to win at all costs demands that players do everything in their power to produce results.
The money that has entered the game enforces the belief that not winning becomes inconceivable. The implications become so great that clubs can even find it acceptable to...

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