Follow the money sure, but what about the football?

THERE will come a time when football isn’t mentioned once in this column.

Passes, shots and poor referees replaced by balance sheets and loan quotas. Red shirts usurped by red ink. The current fascination, some say obsession, with boardroom politics and financial matters continues to devour everything in its path.

All of it cloaked in this weird spy-novel subterfuge language, where words lose any trace of their original meaning.