Fans left sidelined in sport’s creed of greed

It was football’s turn to have the mud stick last week. Once again – it seems almost weekly now – sport has been driven off the back pages to the front pages, for all the wrong reasons.

Back in the spring we had a global investigation into drug abuse in world athletics, including the Olympics, which revealed corruption beyond even our worst suspicions. The revelations painted an astonishing picture of not just athletes, ...