Another sort of homecoming

Fantasy football and grim reality are set to collide at the 2014 World Cup. Liam Mackey, in Rio de Janeiro, predicts the winner.

It’s coming home, it’s coming home, it’s coming — football’s coming home. With all due respect to Baddiel and Skinner, the Lightning Seeds and all who bend the knee before the Three Lions, most of the world has been waiting since 1950 — not 1966 — for football’s true homecoming.

And that day finally dawns today.