Orban’s place at the European Championship shows that football and politics remain inseparable

Viktor Orban decided against going to Munich. Instead the Hungarian prime minister went to dinner in Brussels with Giorgia Meloni, leader of the post-fascist Fratelli d’Italia party. But everybody knew the reason he hadn’t gone to watch his country’s final group game: the prospect of protests against legislation recently passed in Hungary banning the representation of LGBT lifestyles in schools or on TV shows aimed at under-18s. In the end, he missed what was very nearly Hungary’s greatest result for (the Miracle of Munich)?