“A SLUMPED ARGENTINA FAN’S DREAMS HAD ALL JUST COME TRUE – AND LEO MESSI’S HAD, TOO”
Out of nowhere, they appeared. “Sir, filming isn’t allowed in this area,” one of the two security men said, insisting that FourFourTwo delete the 10-second video that we’d taken on our phone, or else.
We’d arrived at our accommodation in the Zafaran Portakabin village, and staff didn’t want word to spread that a queue of 100 angry folk were stood at reception past 3.30am, not being allowed to check in to the venue they had booked for £165 a night.
These were the very early days of the World Cup, when fans flooded into Qatar from 32 different countries. Everywhere you went, people
