Just for argument sake, why are politicians not acceptable in sports, but business barons kosher?
Aires' argument below is telling. Can't sports be administered by sportsmen themselves? Or is the system built in a way that ensures their continued dependence? Agreed our business barons and realtors are given credit for building certain teams, particularly their own. But is it not possible to envisage a sporting world without them? And who says business is not linked with politics? Some business barons and entrepreneurs are open part of the political world (Anil Salgaocar, Manohar Parrikar). In other cases, politicians have become businessmen (including the Alemaos, and many others before them -- the earlier nexus was with hotels). In some cases (like Digubab), it is not clear whether we have businessmen masquerading (and protecting their own interests) as politicians, or politicians who grew ambitious and needed to park their money in businesses. Eitherway, it's an unhappy mix. Politics and business in Goa is anyway a close marriage. Before the pre-1961 lobby steps in to romanticise things from then, let's add also that the landlords of the past play the role that capital, politics and corruption today plays... even if the details were different, of course. FN On 26 October 2010 18:48, Aires Rodrigues <airesrodrigu...@gmail.com> wrote: > However, there > has to be a mechanism in place so that Sriniwas Dempo can team up with Peter > Vaz to take Goan Football to greater heights. Tonito Botelho whose > knowledge, expertise and contribution to the game knows no bounds is another > asset Goan football cannot afford to be without. We need to be vigilant to > ensure that politicians and persons who have done damage to the game are > shown their place. Politicians also infect the sports bodies with political > rot.