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/ 3 February 2006
The mighty Roger Federer lost the battle with his bottom lip last Sunday. In the way that people divert themselves by dividing the world into two groups — cavaliers or roundheads, gentlemen or players, and so on — it is entirely possible to split the sporting world into criers and non-criers, believes Marina Hyde.
Of all the charges levelled at Jose Mourinho in the past fortnight, Uefa’s prissy suggestion that he is a poor role model has to rank among the more obvious instances of cobblers to emanate from their saintly halls. ”Coaches are role models for the players and the fans,” the Uefa communications director William Gaillard said of the Chelsea manager.
Each time you see pictures of United States soldiers humiliating Iraqi prisoners, what do you feel? Revulsion, probably. Compassion. Sadness. Anger, perhaps. But there’s something else puzzling in there, too: a more acute visceral reaction to the women’s involvement than the men’s.