Hard reality intrudes on Brexiteers’ fantasy

The Rumble in the Jungle has been described as “arguably the greatest sporting event of the 20th century”.

The 1974 jamboree, a world heavyweight decider between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo today) was certainly the subject of one of the great sports films — Leon Gast’s When We Were Kings.