I wrote some months back that the forthcoming World Cup in Brazil will be the last in its current form. The revelations in the Sunday Times this weekend do nothing to change it.
David Conn neatly summarises everything we know about the whole rotten gang of nose-in-the-trough popinjays that is FIFA and their World Cup here.
It feels awfully like the beginning of the end for the old order, because FIFA are doing two very, very important…
Originally published on TwoHundredPercent about the media storm over whether FIFA should permit England’s footballers to wear poppies on their shirts when England played Spain in a friendly the day before Remembrance Sunday.
A history of the 20th century which doesn’t focus on the USA is the novel premise that underpins David Goldblatt’s magnificent history of football from the earliest appearance of the game to the eve of the 2006 World Cup.