Instead of outraging over FIFA’s letter to Indian football federation, the troubling thing is this is another example of courts losing their way into politics of sports, unmindful of consequences, and leaving things worse. Across the world, sports is governed by autonomous institutions, supervised by pan-national, global bodies. That’s sacrosanct.
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