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Sat 11 Nov 2002Only a game? Think againCONNECT: Nobody touched by this row comes out shining but Mick McCarthy emerges far better than Roy Keane or any of his backers'After many years in which the world has afforded me many experiences, what I most surely know in the long run about morality and the obligations of men, I owe to sport," wrote Albert Camus in 1957. Camus's celebrated avowal was first published in the magazine, France Football. It was headlined: "What I Owe to Football".