Chris Dunlavy A FRESH TAKE ON FOOTBALL

IN COLONIAL India, when the streets of Delhi were infested with venomous cobras, the British government offered a bounty for every snake skin handed to the authorities.Things soon went awry. Before long, cobras were being bred for their skins. It cost the government a fortune, the streets remained hazardous and, when the ruse was finally rumbled, these pop-up farmers released their now worthless snakes into the wild.Instead of solving the city’s cobra problem, the scheme had inadvertently made things even worse. Dubbed the ‘Cobr...