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FOOTBALL, like all sport, is bewitched by television, by its long reach, its willingness to write large cheques, its capacity to make the dull seem dramatic in slow motion.
Yet, for all its surrender to TV (like allowing it to decide match timings), football is uniquely bashful in not letting it play referee. The influence of the cameras stays outside the lines.
This is not surprising. Football has a puritanical streak, it believes in its own perfection and is loath to fiddle with its simplicity. It has sensibly not tinkered with major rules like cricket, nor fiddled with scoring systems like table tennis.
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