Paul Rouse: The wonder, the obsession, the hope of a World Cup

It is fitting that this World Cup is being played in a winter. There is too much that is wrong with it to ruin the memory of so many summers.

DREAM FACTORY: A worker pushes a wheelbarrow past a mural in Doha

“It was a perfect summer, as all World Cup summers are.” 

-  Karl Ove Knausgaard in ‘Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game (2016)