How, too, are we to survive in this richly unfair world if we are to berobbedof the satisfaction of observing and detecting the hypocrisy of the high and the mighty?
Yet so far negotiations have barely got going, despite an attempt by Michael Jordan, the sport's greatest star who must be miffed at being robbedof the annual ritual in which he threatens to retire only to be persuaded to play just one more season.
"If one or several member states don't play the game the sanctions are robbedof meaning, " Mr Santer said, announcing that the commission would be investigating the matter at talks next week.
Apart from a farcical finish to the final and regulations which robbed many matches of a true Caribbean atmosphere, the real cost of the whole fiasco can be seen now.