For many years I was a very keen participant in a number of sports and until recent years I followed world sport with great enthusiasm.

However, things have changed mainly due to the the smothering of sport for sport's sake with the evil spread of professionalism - money money money! In this part of the world we used to enjoy uninterrupted sports telecasts and radio broadcasts, but today all are frequently interrrupted often at the most inappropriate moment, with long periods of rowdy advertising.

Of course sportsmanship is something of the past. In world tennis today the throwing of racquets, the angry hitting of tennis balls far out of bounds, the threatening waving of fists, plus insulting language are sadly the in thing.

No need to go into detail about crowd riots, along with fighting and stabbing as we all see that on TV far too often.

I fail to see how any normal person today can be enthusiastic about what used to be sport for sport's sake.