Fifa’s boss wants the game to float above ‘ideological battles’. But it’s Fifa’s ideology of greed that steered the World Cup into a desert stinking of money and suffering
Russia and China’s football misery shows the game is only beautiful in noisy democracies
The photographer’s retrospective show maps his decades-long trip through the fear zone
Doctor Khumalo remains South Africa’s most charismatic footballer and TV documentary 16V explores how his brilliance captured the imagination of a generation
By bloating its showpiece, Fifa has made single-country bids impossible and dimmed the tournament’s magic
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The football economy is infected with all kinds of glorified rackets – but confronting the social parasitism of betting would be a good start
The continent’s football boss wants to be remembered as the architect of a great African football renaissance
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Eskom, meet your baby brother
The magazine documented the now-betrayed hopes of South African football in the 1990s
Top coaches are either psychologists or cult leaders; Maguire & company need the latter, writes Carlos Amato
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