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What will Trump and Infantino try to ruin next?
The World Cup just about survived them - but could FIFA's boss really end up in charge of NATO?
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Why we’re addicted to the beautiful agony of the World Cup
The tournament has the same qualities as Romeo and Juliet, La Bohème and Brokeback Mountain
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Why the rest of South America wants Argentina to lose the World Cup final
It’s not outright hatred, but there’s definitely something there. And the football brings it all out
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Tim Bradford’s cartoon: The Dumbskulls
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Britain isn't America - and that's why Farage had to fall
Expecting to escape scrutiny over that £5m donation was a huge blunder – and a gift to Burnham
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Fans 1
Trump 0
Not even the president’s ego and Fifa’s greed have managed to stop the joy of this World Cup
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My night watching the World Cup’s cruellest fixture
I thought supporting both teams would be a win-win. It stopped feeling like one shortly after kick-off
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How UEFA became the true star of the World Cup
European football's governing body has somehow become the moral voice of FIFA's increasingly absurd competition
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Other football fans can fly their flags – why has mine been hijacked by bigots?
I bought a huge cross of St George for the 1990 World Cup and I recently got it out again. But I’m having second thoughts about actually flying it
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The World Cup of Afrophobia
South Africa are back in the greatest contest in world sport – but why are so many fans in other African nations getting behind our opponents?
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In the shadow of the World Cup, people in Mexico and the US are disappearing
Organised criminals have been abducting and disappearing people in Mexico for years. But the same is now happening in the US, and there the perpetrator is even more powerful
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Why have ITV put Emma Hayes in a World Cup kitchen?
The former Chelsea women's manager is the channel’s best pundit - but her setting demeans her
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God Save The King is the World Cup’s worst national anthem – England must change it
It’s outdated, overlong and deadly dull. The Three Lions should line up for Jerusalem instead
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Is Thomas Tuchel the German that England always needed?
Technically brilliant and unafraid to take tough decisions - could he be the man to end 60 years of hurt and close a songbook of offensive chants?
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The Argentinian who hated the World Cup
Philosophical writer Jorge Luis Borges loathed international football. He was wrong about the sport, but right about the nationalism it engenders
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The sound of real football fans is priceless – so why has FIFA priced them out of the World Cup?
A game without the roars and songs of proper supporters is like a Hollywood blockbuster without a score
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Tim Bradford’s Cartoon: Watching the World Cup
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My mission to meet all the World Cup final scorers
Only 34 people alive are in the most exclusive club on the planet. One photographer set out to track them down
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I boycotted Eurovision.. now the World Cup is next
I love football, and I love big international tournaments – but it will be impossible to watch Donald Trump’s tournament and enjoy it
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Trump’s money-grubbing World Cup plans are thrown into reverse
Prices were so high for tickets that the tournament risked becoming a festival of pure greed. But fans simply weren’t buying it – and so Trump and FIFA have had to think again.
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The most unwelcoming, expensive World Cup in history
It will be hideously expensive, will exclude whole sections of the US public and be largely inaccessible to foreigners – a perfect Trumpian tournament