If this World Cup is to be remembered as the best ever, it will be in spite of their efforts, not because of them.

It was FIFA’s corruption that stunned people, not President Donald Trump’s. The chief executive’s contempt for rules is now taken for granted. What Sport, even more than politics,…

Even White House interference and Fifa’s greed cannot spoil the celebrations. At last, an arena in which multiculturalism triumphs and underdogs score, says Simon Tisdall, a…