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Trump: heckling the bouffant-haired presidential candidate is a favourite pastime of James Milton
Trump: heckling the bouffant-haired presidential candidate is a favourite pastime of James MiltonCredit: Jeff J Mitchell

Without integrity in engineering, objects buckle, split and ultimately collapse. In sport though, integrity isn’t always so, well, integral.

Virtually every sport has been tainted by some scandal or outrage yet administrators, participants and spectators tend to muddle through, keeping the show on the road.

This week El Salvador’s football team held a press conference to reveal, in the interests of "transparency", that a businessman had offered them financial inducements to affect the result of a World Cup qualifier against Canada. If you can’t trust a businessman from El Salvador, who can you trust?

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