This is a typical example of biased double standard when things works towards vs against one's preference.
LCW / TH are good friends, "knowing" that could beat TH anyway, LCW relaxed and play around with his good friend; "knowing" that could not beat LCW anyway, TH also relaxed and not thinking of any desire to turn the table but turn the remaining points to an exhibition...
Maybe you have forgot about the famous win by LCW over LD in MAS a few years a go, turn the table around even at the brink of defeat with LD just a point from winning the game. If LCW also "knew" and "recognized" of difficulty to claw back the points, he should just easily lose that game and match.... of course not, just because LD was not his friend!
If the spirit of LCW/TH match is acceptable, LD's so-called "gifting" a match, or even a title to his good friends and team-mates is just a similar logic but he did it in a much earlier stage, i.e. not until on court but earlier, should also be acceptable.
If you defied a theft as a theft, then even it's just a single dollar, or steal it for goodwill, it would still be guilty of a crime of theft with a million dollar. The only difference would be the levels of punishment. Therefore if you could not tolerate the behavior of theft, you should not tolerate the theft of one dollar but band on those with a million.
At the end, this is human nature and no one is perfect. so why not concentrate on badminton and not players? this is "Badminton-Central" forum and not "Bad, mean, tongue-to-tongue" forum!
