The Premier League is a business undergoing exponential growth purely because of its ability to induce joy in the spectator and yet, paradoxically, the lopsided wealth it creates in English football may be encouraging boardrooms to sacrifice this pursuit in favour of pragmatism.
In 1809, a killer forest was induced to attack spectators by a rogue Romanian, while according to the novelist, wizards are still trying to pin down what happened in the notorious tournament of 1877, which nobody remembers.
In order to induce a critical frame of mind in the spectator, Brecht considered it necessary to dispense with the empathetic involvement with the stage that the illusionary theatre sought to induce.
Spectators – once, admittedly, they had negotiated an online ticketing system apparently designed to induce collective rage – have filled late-night trains, sleepy with awe and delight at what they have seen.
Fielders have become spectators and spectators have become fielders.
But moments after Cook had brought the spectators to their feet by reaching his hundred, Bell induced a collective sigh as he was bowled by a fine leg-cutter from the tireless Praveen Kumar.
