Low scores and sports snobbery

In honour of the start of the World Cup, here's a contrarian view from Martin O'Malley, a regular columnist over at cbc.ca. O'Malley, some of you may know, is a writer with a lovely light touch who once was a frequent writer for the Globe magazine (not that one, the long-gone, excellent weekend supplement that was published by the Globe and Mail) and, for two and a half glorious years was the marquee columnist for The City magazine at the Sunday Star. He's also written several books, on doctors and baseball, among others.

In this particular column he explains why he's not particularly enamoured of the "beautiful game" (soccer) but is more peeved by people who belittle sports they don't understand.

(By the way, for those who don't know it, cbc.ca is also where Heather Mallick landed after being turfed by the Globe and Mail last year. Wonder why people of this calibre are not finding a platform in Canadian magazines?)