Money in Sports

IS money ruining sports Money has always been involved in sports since the early ages. In today's context due to the wrong use of money the prestige of sports has been declining. Cases such as match fixing, betting, corruption can sometimes be seen in the headline of newspapers and magazines. It is an inevitable fact that these cases is spoiling the reputation of sports. However, money is also helping find and encourage sportsperson and fans too.
Corruption and bribery is some of the activities that has ruined the sports and its reputation. Recently, in the newspaper we could read about Mohammad Bin Haman of AFC getting arrested for bribing FIFA officials in return of selecting him as the next president through biased votes. Examples such as of Haman shows that sports industries has corrupt people who are using the platform of sports for their own benefit. Hence the beauty and reputation is lost with prevailing use of money. Likewise, corruption in the government sector has also ruined reputation of sports. Government allocates certain amount of money from the total budget in sports, but the officials in ministries misuse that amount and deprive infrastructural and sustainable development in sports sector. Players are discouraged due to low facilities and tend to lose their spirit. Similarly, there also has been the monopoly created on sports due to money Clubs that can provide handsome wages and emoluments to their players succeed to be successful, whereas certain clubs with lack of budget and economy have nothing substantial to do except for falling under low profiled clubs with low success rate. For instance, Manchester City is owned by the royal family of UAE and has high & standard facilities to their club for subsequent success. Moreover, the reputation of sports is also declined by the match fixing cases. For instance, Pakistani cricket player and captain Salman Butt was arrested for match fixing. Cases like this has stained in the reputation of