GROOVE IS IN THEIR HEART
If there’s one thing that Gianni Infantino would like you to know about the Human Rights World Cup, it’s that EVERYONE IS HAVING A REALLY GOOD TIME. Especially a grinning Gianni, on whom the TV cameras must fixate at least once a match, though such candid shots are not shared on the stadium big screens, in case he receives the Gideon Osborne at London 2012 treatment. But why is everyone ruddy bloody loving it so much? One idea relentlessly floated by the tournament’s advocates is that the booze ban imposed as last orders rang before the big kick-off has stopped hooligans getting lagered and bringing the ruckus in the fashion they actually didn’t do much of at any of the Russian, Brazilian or South African World Cups.
