I am also finding the attitude of human rights organisations frustrating though. By attacking sport they are alienating potential supporters. I grew up believing that sport could not be affected by politics and it is an ideal that I and a lot of other sports fans still hold to.

Sport may seem trivial to non-sports fans but it is not something we can just drop from our lives. It is inspiring, it allows me as someone with Aspergers to form connections to people and things. It is something that human rights activists now seem to expect people like me to do without.

Now I thought that the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix was a bad idea and campaigned against it but for some that is not good enough. They seem to think that being a sports fan is what’s stopping people like me from getting more involved in their cause. In fact they are alienating people with their attitude, a recent article on an F1 website described the alliance between the Montreal protesters and Anonymous as “cry babies, bullies and terrorists”!

True most sports people are ignorant about human rights but human rights people are equally ignorant about sport. They don’t recognise that people and society needs sport as an escape from the uglier parts of life.