News from September 2007
September 7th, 2007 by Bender Rodríguez
On the importance of knowing your geography. We received hundreds of emails to our webmaster email account at Euroleague Basketball in regards to a seemingly innocuous error on our website surrounding the birth city of one of the coaches. In short, one of our editors had listed his hometown as Capljina, Croatia, when in fact Capljina is in Bosnia and Herzegovina, right on the border with Croatia. Most of the emails were very emotional and very aggressive, calling us fascists and suggesting, among other things slightly more graphic, that we go back to school to study geography. The following email, however, was very well written (if somewhat grammatically inaccurate), with the author taking the time to explain why the error was so offensive to the Bosnians.
"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation."
Samuel Johnson