Fifa Uncovered review – such brazen wrongdoing it’s like a particularly repulsive true-crime show
Nov 09, 2022
3 minutes
Modern football – that is, a spectacle you feel a nagging shame from participating in, because like so many other things it seems less about joy and more about money with every passing day – began in 1974. The global sport’s governing body, Fifa, had previously been a parochial little outfit, a handful of men in suits happily organising World Cups that were simply football tournaments. But, under a new president, João Havelange, funds for the global expansion of the game were
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