Politics and sport make uneasy, if unavoidable, bedfellows. This has been underlined plenty of times in just the past few months and is now being highlighted once again by tensions in the Gulf centred on Qatar, host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
The best-laid plans of lawmakers and score-makers do not always end badly, however.
And if any bunch of legislators has had reason to appreciate sport’s power as a political tool in recent times,
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