After a controversial build-up to Fifa’s showpiece event, Mexico, writes Ed Malyon in Mexico City, cleansed a World Cup and ensured the conversations around football will start to change

The World Cup kicks off on Thursday with FIFA betting that the enduring appeal of the greatest footballing show on earth can rise above anger at soaring ticket prices, an uneasy…

Tournament-related construction projects in Mexico City have mainly increased daily frustrations, adding to a general feeling of apathy — if not antipathy — among locals toward…