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The age of the asterisk

@KOwriting

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IT feels as if the spontaniety of sport has been lost to us. In football, the days of wildly celebrating a goal after a cursory glance at the referee and linesman are long gone thanks to VAR. Someone in a video room will strip the moment away because your striker’s toe tip breached an imaginary, imperfect line by a millimetre.

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