'The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry & nationalist aspiration...it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle'
Boima Tucker on football's political contradictions and conflicting emotions
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The World Cup was born from imperial rivalry and nationalist aspiration. Almost a century later, it still oscillates between mass hope and elite spectacle.