There is a particular kind of dread faced by soccer fans flying long-haul on the day of a big game. You take your seat and try to make peace with the fact that for the next nine hours, you will exist in an information vacuum before landing to a barrage of notifications telling you everything you spent the flight trying not to think about. So it felt like biting from forbidden fruit when, somewhere over the Atlantic and a few miles up, I was watching World Cup goals fly in — and they were live.
I was flying Virgin Atlantic's 'Fearless Lady', one of several newly-configured Airbus A350 aircraft connected to Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink Wi-Fi. The flight from Orlando to London Heathrow clashed with both Uruguay vs Cape Verde and Egypt vs New Zealand.
