Slap on the suncream, don your sunglasses and head to your nearest Boxpark to be showered in overpriced pilsner: the World Cup is here in … wait, November?! That pint hurled at you isn’t going to feel nearly as pleasant in single digit temperatures, is it?
These are strange times and a strange World Cup, happening out of season in a nation state the size of Yorkshire, and with as much attention (rightly) focused on the human rights violations of its host as on the football itself.
