“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. (in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)” WarSportsViolenceRabp Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950 Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950