Low scores and sports snobbery

In honour of the start of the World Cup, here's a contrarian view from Martin O'Malley, a regular columnist over at cbc.ca. O'Malley, some of you may know, is a writer with a lovely light touch who once was a frequent writer for the Globe magazine (not that one, the long-gone, excellent weekend supplement that was published by the Globe and Mail) and, for two and a half glorious years was the