Overpaid Rivalries Putting Sporting Tradition of Fair Play On the Line

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In the world of football, the story of the anonymous Norwegian fan should take no one by surprise. He woke up in a bar, where he'd nodded off in an alcohol-fuelled daze, to find his fellow supporters had borrowed his credit card and run up a pounds 10,000 drinks bill.

'I remember falling asleep and when I woke up they wanted me to sign. But I won't pay,' he said, preferring to remain anonymous AND potentially broke. He'd been cheated, of course, and you can only wonder where the other fans got the idea that cheating might be a good thing to do. From the sport they'd travelled from Norway to Portugal to watch, perhaps? Surely not.

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Overpaid Rivalries Putting Sporting Tradition of Fair Play On the Line

The multi-million-pound balls-up - or balls-down in his case - of the Manchester United goalkeeper Roy Carroll aga...

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