ERIC CANTONA (ABOVE) WILL NOT BE watching the WORLD CUP IN QATAR. Not a minute of it. This tournament, he says, is “only about money and the way they treated the people who built the stadiums [more than 6,000 migrant workers have died since Qatar was awarded the tournament in 2010]. It’s horrible. I understand football is a business. But I thought it was the only place where everybody could have a chance.”
It’s a powerful and seductive idea, football as universal leveller: the global game, the simplest of sports, the one metaphorical
