Jack Anderson: Cost of cheating must outweigh the rewards

MANCHESTER City’s breach of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regulations; Saracens’ breach of salary cap rules in rugby; claims of state sponsored doping at various Olympic Games; sign-stealing in major league baseball; technology-enhanced runners trampling all over records in athletics; wrestling with an opponent on a yellow card in order to get them sent off in Gaelic football.

The above examples cross jurisdictions and sports but they all have one thing in common — allegations that those involved broke or bent the rules; that they may have cheated.