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1/5) Pliny the Younger had little time for spectator sports or the fickle fans, obsessive in their support for their favoured colour chariot-racing team:
"I am not in the least bit interested in the chariot races. They offer nothing new, nothing you need to see more than once..
"I am not in the least bit interested in the chariot races. They offer nothing new, nothing you need to see more than once..
2/5) "I'm amazed so many thousands of men have such a childish desire to see horses race and men drive chariots. If they were attracted by the speed of the animals or skill of the drivers I might understand, but all they care about is team uniforms - it's the colours they love!..
3/5) "In fact I'm sure that if right in the middle of the race, the team colours were suddenly switched, the fans would immediately transfer their support, abandoning the driver whose name they had been shouting just a moment before! To think a cheap tunic could have such power..
