The deadly earnestness of sport is really getting rather disturbing.
After body-line cricket we are to have dictatorship football. The Daily Mail's Rome corre- spondent has given impressive particulars of it. An Italian eleven (for the game, it is reassuring to know, is Association, not Rugby) is coming to London next month to e.aend Italy's title as holder of the European Cup, and the selection and training of the team has become a matter of national prestige. On Fascist principles those duties have been entrusted to one man, a certain Corn- mendatore Pozzo. He is, in fact, Football Dictator. He selects the players, coaches them, plans their diet, dictates their strategy, imbues them with morale. As preparation about thirty players are likely to be segregated in some small town-cut off from all contacts for a fortnight till a selection of eleven of them is finally made.
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