How Football (Nearly) Came Home: Adventures in Putin’s World Cup

Released on By Barney Ronay
How Football (Nearly) Came Home: Adventures in Putin’s World Cup

The summer of 2018: England sweltered in the most sustained heatwave for 42 years, the government tore itself apart over deals and no deals, and hundreds of miles away, in a taciturn and strange state, the national football team did the unthinkable in the World Cup: they didn’t screw it up.

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