The future of sport

The Guardian newspaper is beginning a new series of pieces on the issues attending the future of sport.

It begs the question as to which sports – and how they are marketed – will come to dominate the 21st Century.

My guess would be that before too long real-life sport might just be facing an existential threat from ‘virtual’ ones.

I don’t claim to understand more than a fraction of e-sports or ‘gaming’ – as I think they call it – generally, but when the commercial revenues produced by such pastimes now nearly match those of real sport (and indeed the movie industry), ‘gaming’ warrants its own weekly programme on Radio Five Live and major soccer clubs are adding leading exponents of ‘fantasy football’  to their employment rolls, the possibility cannot be ruled out.

The aforementioned Guardian series will be worth following because it will prompt all those interested in the world of sport to fire up their grey cells and tap into their imagination and vision quotients.

Here’s a link to the first article in the series, as published today on the website of – THE GUARDIAN