WHY RED IN TOOTH AND CLAW?

PUNE MIRROR (pg18, 4DEC2011).

The dictatorship in sports is back with Hockey India and Indian Hockey Federation both trailing the path that BCCI once treaded. Railroading the Hockey players into their decisions and threatening to sanction a ban on the ‘rebels’ (as they say it in sports parlance) who will play in WSH evokes the days of rivalry between the BCCI and the ICL. Is there even a single bona fide reason for them to take away the fundamental rights of these citizens to earn a good living? You neither pay them handsomely nor allow them to get paid by someone else. They aren’t breaking away from their duties, for them country and pride is everything for which they're ready to forgo the money and the fame but isn't this a moral responsibility of the governing bodies to look after their national players instead of being red in tooth and claw and trying to extract their pound of flesh. They're the assets to the country so why aren't they treated like one? In the times when people are trying to pump life in the future of this game there are people putting nails in its coffin.