"The World's Worst Sport"

25 August 2022

1 min 58s

Fatal formation.

Campaign group Keep the Ban use the language of sports channels to highlight loopholes in the Hunting Act 2004. Thus, cubbing—when young hounds are taught to kill—becomes a "pre-season fixture" between Team Hunter and Team Cub. No prizes for guessing who's got the superior record.

As pundit Alistair Shaftesbury (perhaps named after the Gillingham and Shaftesbury Show) explains, Team Hunter use a 4-4-4-4-4-4-2 formation against Team Cub's "flimsy and indefensible" 3-1 set-up. Call it the give-youth-no-chance approach.

Once the action begins, reporter Jess indicates the cubs are about to get "ripped to shreds yet again" like an under-strength Premier League team. Her blasé attitude is worrying enough, but then String and Tins' sound design goes, well, overkill.

A cacophony of yelps, growls, and bites play over a black screen—mercy for viewers, but not for cubs. Before any sports channels decide to cover cubbing for real, the advertised not-for-profit want it and other activities banned.

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