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The Fyre festival of football?

The decision to disallow Chris Wood’s goal in the qualifier against Costa Rica means that the All Whites and their fans will not be at the 2022 Football World Cup, which starts on November 20 in Qatar. They may have dodged a bullet.

There are, of course, worse places to hold the biggest sporting event in the world – for example, Stewart Island, Antarctica,

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