World Cup is on the right side of history

There are few enough human activities that breathe by facilitating a cheek-by-jowl proximity of euphoria and despair. Sport is one — as myriad examples will show this weekend.

Golf fans, tennis fans, hurling and football fans, cricket fans, soccer fans, and racing fans too can all find something, some do-or-die contest to be harmlessly, wildly irrational, wonderfully partisan about. However, because of the weekend that’s in it, one event may stand out. It, for many reasons, probably deserves to.