What an awful few days for professional soccer in England. I wish these kind of events were rare and not a problem for baseball and other sports, but they seem endemic in all major league professional sports.
People like me - sports addicts - will never turn the games off or stop going to the stadium, but I suspect that many of the more casual fans will be discouraged from parting with their cash for these sports. If that happens, it will lead to big changes in how top level sports leagues are organized. It'll be painful, but it probably won't be a bad thing if the incentives to cheat are removed and the athletes are forced to live more like normal people.
