A world away from a ball and a yard of grass

IT WAS said by Napoleon — Bonaparte, not Dynamite — that one should never watch a sausage or a law being made if “you want to keep your stomach about you”.

The same is probably true of picking World Cup hosts.

First though, let’s begin with some real football, a world away from the joyless world of sports administration.

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