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The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] grass-roots campaign against the overwhelming cultural and economic predominance of professional sports and their disproportionate appeal to and influence upon the working classes of the Imperial Republic during a time of global conflict and domestic turmoil.
The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a [[Shireroth|Shirerithian]] grass-roots campaign against the overwhelming cultural and economic predominance of professional sports and their disproportionate appeal to and influence upon the working classes of the Imperial Republic during a time of global conflict and domestic turmoil.
[[File:Nein zu Fussball.png|thumb|left|250px|The League sought to draw attention to the corrosive effect Football supposedly had on civic virtues.]]


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Latest revision as of 17:51, 19 December 2017

League Against Professional Sports
Participant in Shirerithian Homefront
(Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation)
The League Against Professional Sports logo
Active 1655–
Ideology
  • de-commercialisation of sports
  • amateurism
  • gentlemanly conduct
  • prohibition of sports betting
  • suspension of football games in wartime
Area of operations Benacia
Opponents SAFL, Ultras

The League Against Professional Sports was a Shirerithian grass-roots campaign against the overwhelming cultural and economic predominance of professional sports and their disproportionate appeal to and influence upon the working classes of the Imperial Republic during a time of global conflict and domestic turmoil.

The League sought to draw attention to the corrosive effect Football supposedly had on civic virtues.