Chasing Paralympic dream as Rio revelry appears over the horizon

Luis Suarez’s injury. Italy training in a sauna. Leighton Baines’ reading habits.

Yep, it’s starting to dawn now. Finally. That realisation another World Cup is upon us and the sad fact any interest in it from these shores will be of the vicarious variety. At what point will England trip up and how will the ratio of tragedy and comedy fall? Are Spain good enough to win again? Can Brazil overcome the controversies over budgets and buildings and make us all love them and the competition again?

It’s just not the same, is it?