Sports Brief
Sport is also a major source of entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sport drawing large crowds to sport venues, and reaching wider audiences through broadcasting. Sport betting is in some cases severely regulated, and in some cases is central to the sport. Early in the second half on Tuesday, in the minutes before everything changed, I started to fear that we would comfortably see out the game with a two- or three-goal win – and, delusionally, think it was a great performance.
- It is common for popular sports to attract large broadcast audiences, leading to rival broadcasters bidding large amounts of money for the rights to show certain fixtures.
- Rugby football flourishes in other postcolonial cultures, such as New Zealand and South Africa, where the British once ruled.
- The technology is not compulsory, but was used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, and the 2015 FIFA Women’s World