Football, with its herd mentality, could learn from Olympic sports’ willingness to share information

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The Olympics always puts football in the box, if only for a brief two-week period.

Indeed, the very nature of football's participation in the Games, with teams composed of players who hope to aspire to be the best, but are not yet the best, give it the status of an interloper. And as if to emphasise this status, football starts even before the Opening Ceremony. In the wider world, it may be the greatest of all sports, but in the Olympics it is just one of 26, and by no means the most important – that distinction going to track and field.