Sport facing unprecedented problems in the face of global recession: A commentary

摘要

All well-written dramas have a beginning, a middle and an end, in between which the plot will twist and turn, often in unexpected ways. So it is then, that the global economic downturn appears to have all the hallmarks of a classic drama. The impact of the downturn on sport has certainly started, it definitely is not yet finished, and so we find ourselves somewhere in the middle of what is rapidly becoming the most unprecedented situation facing the new world of commercialised, globalised sport.