Spectator Sports
()NE speaker in 2YA’s Monday night discussion "Are New Zealanders Too Keen on Sport?" had.some harsh words to say about the non-participant, the onlooker whose only part is "to criticise those who play, those who administer the sport, and those who referee it."
It was a barb which struck rather too near the nerve for my liking. For what else is the commentator who, sitting cosily by his fireside, knows nothing of the sweat and strain that have gone into the making of a programme, but is merely selfishly concerned with his own enjoyment or aesthetic satisfaction? In fact, he is actually a lower form of life than the befagged spectator lolling g on the terraces who shouts "Get a sack" to the flannelled fool, or "Orfside" to the oaf, for the spectator sport at any rate lays himself open to being laid for by supporters of the other team. The commentator, skulking behind his anonymity, risks nothing. It is unfortunate that he is also denied the satisfaction of seeing his barbs strike home,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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176Spectator Sports New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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