Should we call cricket the sport of corruption and fraud, soccer then qualifies to be called the sport of mobs. Nothing exemplifies this label for soccer better than the current 2012 Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Football Championship, hosted jointly by Poland and Ukraine.

Apparently, soccer, generally called football in most of the world, was born as a peaceful sport, at least in the Greek and Roman civilizations where its then-prevalent version was played for “fun and frolic”.… [Read more]