There seems to be a clash of values when members of the GB football team play poker after arriving at the Olympic Village and one, Danny Rose of Tottenham Hotspur, tweets about making £700 in just a few quick hands.
The general response online was one of indignation, and the tweets were soon deleted, but football still does not seem a natural fit with the founding ethos of the Games, the English Premier League having become associated with vast wages and brazen spending.
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