Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy… — George Orwell
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
1945
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Current citation
Orwell, George. "The Sporting Spirit." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 12.
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Orwell, George. "The Sporting Spirit." Tribune (London), 14 Dec. 1945.
