Let’s say you’re a team preparing for a major football tournament.
You’re training, maybe doing some shooting drills, or practising a set-piece routine. You hear a buzzing noise. What is it? A helicopter? No, too quiet. A swarm of bees? No, too loud. Oh, it’s a drone. Someone is flying a drone above you. Bit weird.
Who is controlling the drone, and why is it up there? What would your instinct be? Maybe it’s some mischievous local youths, who have nicked their dad’s Mavic Pro and are amusing themselves. Maybe it’s a filmmaker, collecting some stock footage of what they thought was just a field. Maybe it’s an oblivious amateur enthusiast who has no idea an elite sports team are busily preparing for some big games.
Would most people’s first thought honestly be, ‘That simply must be one of our upcoming opponents spying on us’? You would think the majority of the planet’s residents simply aren’t that paranoid, that their instinct is not that this is all part of some nefarious spying mission from another team to gain some notional advantage.
Broadly because the instinct is to ask the question: why?
This scenario has the Canadian women’s Olympic football team tumbling into chaos after it emerged that the drone caught flying over a training session for their…
