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By Hugh Brown - posted Friday, 15 September 2000


Another great saying that young players learn is "What goes on the field stays on the field". That’s the way sport should remain for both players and officials.

Unlike the business world that seems to be taking over sport, there are a lot of sporting factors that cannot be predicted, controlled, perfected or eliminated. That’s what makes sport the wonderful experience that it is.

The fallibility of the officials, like the fallibility of the players, is part of the beast. To try to change that state of affairs reduces the enjoyment factor for all concerned.

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Let’s have more sporting action and less electronic interference.

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Hugh Brown is a PhD candidate in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT and teaches communication at the University of Queensland and QUT. He was editor of On Line Opinion from June 2000 until August 2004 and has a degree in journalism from the University of Queensland, for which he was awarded a University Medal. Before joining On Line Opinion he was editor of the now-defunct Tr@cks e-zine, based in Brisbane, and inaugural student editor of The Queensland Independent. He has also freelanced for a variety of publications.

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