26-06-2018, 06:16
Agreed on the football front - best since at least France '98, if not further back into the mists of time - but when it comes to the hosts, please don't lose sight of the fact that the reason the tournament is going so well, with "lots of smiles", is because the whole thing is a PR exercise for Putin's regime, just as the Sochi Olympics were. The funny thing about authoritarian thugs is that they never have trouble getting the things they want to be seen in front of the cameras, and the things they don't want to be seen far, far out of sight.