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
By bloating its showpiece, Fifa has made single-country bids impossible and dimmed the tournament’s magic
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