Possible Clues:

• Hated being dropped from international match?
• Loathsome act surrounding trial
• Legal document about trial regarded as awful
• “____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another’s pain” (William Cowper)
• Hated
• Infamous
• Drunken employee originally breathalysed, perhaps couldn't stand
• Thought the worst of
• Hated action taken about evaluation
• There was nothing at all like this match, indeed