Sunday’s World Cup final will be the first in the competition’s history to serve up a half-time show in the style of the NFL. It’s fitting enough for a final in the United States but its suitability for a football match has been questioned.
Gianni Infantino’s brazen willingness to lean into the showbusiness side of a World Cup sticks in the craw but this manifestation of it as at least in the name of a good cause.
