India, Feb. 13 -- "Focus on football," they told Pep Guardiola when he sympathised with the slaughtered. "Not his duty.we are not politicians," Mauricio Pochettino reacted when asked about Timothy Weah's comment that World Cup tickets were too pricey for most. "We are not politicians," said the US men's team head coach, adding that Weah's job is "playing football."

Closer home, and with everything about Sunday's World T20 match between India and Pakistan in Colombo still up in the air, ANI quoted Congress MP Shashi Tharoor as saying that he doesn't like politics in sport. "Let politicians do their politics somewhere else."

Tharoor, Pochettino and the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester and Region, who were angry at Guard...