It has been a banner month for nation states and their sporting playthings as the PGA Tour follows European football down a dispiriting road
As Kevin Clark succinctly put it on American sports website The Ringer – “McIlroy and the rest of the PGA loyalists learned a very valuable lesson about modern sports on Tuesday: If you do not sell out, someone will sell you out.”
Manchester City won their treble, beating Inter Milan in the Champions League final on Saturday evening, and completing the project that Abu Dhabi began in 2008. It took them 15 years to win the Champions League, and it seemed long overdue by the time it finally happened. The ownership bid from Qatar which would signal the end of Manchester United as a legitimate footballing institution is still being considered, amid widespread but not yet unanimous support from fans.
Kylian Mbappé’s attempts to squeeze more money out of his Qatari paymasters at PSG on Monday before moving to Real Madrid was a reminder that PSG exists as the nadir of Gulf sports-washing projects, an organisation that manages to be as brainless as it is soulless. I was going to write a column this week about Clare’s decision to play Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds backfiring at a crucial moment, when a referee made what many people might call a hometown decision in the last seconds of a game to deny them a free that would have taken them to extra-time.
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