Brian -- "The reality of sports today is that it is unsporting." How far do you agree with this view?

The intense competition and pressure from traditional rivalry between athletes or teams to win may lead to players demonstrating undesirable behavior such as foul play as players start to get personal. Players, often on the impulse, are driven by the desire to win and may result in succumbing to act undesirably and dishonestly. They only focus about winning and forget about their morals by intentionally injuring another player. Also, they do not respect the sport itself and display unsportsmanlike behavior. For example, during the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, Zinedine Zidane, a French player, committed a serious offence by intentionally hurting an Italian from the opposing team. He walked straight into the Italian and head-butted him in the chest. As a result, Zidane was given a red card for the offence and was sent off the playing field immediately. That was the end of his soccer career as he retired after that world cup. The once renowned French star player had ended his career in shame. However, most athletes are aware of their obligation to the team and usually self-govern their own behavior. For all sports, foul play is usually accompanied by very serious consequences such as the banning of players from entering the sport again and so on. Such consequences act as a deterrent to players to commit such offences. As such , there has only been very few cases of players being banned from the sport due to offences committed during game-play. Therefore since only a minority of sportsman demonstrate such unsporting behavior, the reality of sports today is still sporting.