The point of sport is to ‘unite’ a nation ‘not divide’

Sky News host James Macpherson discusses the outcry from the French national soccer team, which criticised the leader of the National Rally Party, Marine Le Pen. “We know now the French team will not win another game in this championship because they have telegraphed to every opponent they’ll only be attacking from the left wing,” he said. “The point of sport is to unify a nation, not divide, so the moment you start talking about politics as a sports person, whether it is the left or the right, you are doing the opposite of what you are supposed to be doing through sport.”