So you don’t like football? You never said…

In the midst of the World Cup, with a daily diet of football and football chat, it probably sucks to not like the game. I can understand, indeed empathise with, people in that position. I don’t watch Strictly or Game of Thrones and I never got into Line of Duty, though I may well wellContinue reading “So you don’t like football? You never said…”

Ranking World Cups while feeling queasy about this one

Is this the least anticipated World Cup ever? Every football fan I talk to thinks so. Qatar should never have been awarded it given its vile human rights record – staging it there feels like a new low in attempted sports washing. Cheering on football teams in stadia migrant workers died building, in a countryContinue reading “Ranking World Cups while feeling queasy about this one”