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Despite the grimness surrounding Fifa’s often tawdry but carefully buffed spectacle, the tournament has shone on one front

Fifa had options in 2010 and from the moment it made its bid decision, there was only one route from there to here

While sport speaks to the best of the human spirit, officials too often degrade it, says author and broadcaster Mihir Bose

Archie Macpherson runs the rule over climate change, corruption and the lurid legacy of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

A stand-alone runner to oversee the game despite vocal critics in several quarters as the most controversial World Cup in history approaches – but what is Fifa’s real role and responsibility now?

The president of France has said politics should be kept out of sport but his request is not only an insult but a semantic impossibility

It was a Thursday, apparently…Thursday December 2, 2010. Just 12 years but a lifetime ago at the same time.

In his poem Die Lorelei, Heinrich Heine touched on the stillness of the Rhine in his portrait of the legendary mermaid who lured sailors to their doom on the rocks along the river. Just shy of 200 years after Heine's masterpiece, no siren songs have been required to attract footballers…

There has been a hardening of the host nation’s attitudes before a tournament shadowed by corruption, suffering and death