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With the football World Cup in Qatar just weeks away, parents are threatening to sue because of the anguish caused by the cards’ scarcity The Via Manzanares shopping centre in the northern suburb of Pilar outside Buenos Aires is an old-style ring of stores around a modest parking lot that usually services a countryside area dotted with gated communities and polo clubs, in a country that boasts the best polo players in the world. There’s a small supermarket, a bicycle shop, a sushi delivery store, a coffee shop and not much more, except for a sleepy mutt named Canela who’ll amble up for a pat on the head from the shoppers stopping by for a pack of beer, a quick espresso or to order a tray of nigiri. But in recent days its peace has been disturbed by fans not of polo, but of football. A large quantity of kids and adults stood patiently waiting in line outside its sweet shop, desperate to buy “figuritas”, football player stickers similar to US baseball cards. The object is to fill ...

The action from the 3pm (BST) kick-offs in the UK and beyond Haaland awes us all but leaves Guardiola oddly redundant Get in touch! Email Rob “So Southampton have three attackers called Armstrong, Adams, and Adam Armstrong,” says Rob Clare. “I hope City’s defenders can tell them apart. Also, how many players with double-barrelled names are you allowed, in one starting XI?” That’s one for the Knowledge. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2022/oct/08/manchester-city-v-southampton-chelsea-v-wolves-and-more-football-clockwatch-live

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The most significant day in the history of modern football ended with the award of a tainted event that is now weeks away With the surrounding noise on human rights, worker deaths, image laundering and the rest, it is easy to forget what Qatar 2022 is really all about, the founding message at the very heart of this global festival of football. Which is, of course, corruption. Committee members living high on someone else’s hog. Development money that never developed. The fat, wet handshake wrapped up in a TV rights deal. It is time, six weeks away from Fifa’s winter World Cup, to consider the base note of this thing. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/oct/08/football-corruption-and-the-remarkable-road-to-qatar-world-cup

Once mocked, the former captain now reminds the Premier League leaders’ supporters of how far they have come A couple of months ago, Granit Xhaka was warming up at the Vitality Stadium before Arsenal’s game against Bournemouth when he noticed that the travelling fans were serenading Oleksandr Zinchenko, one of the club’s summer signings. (“Zin-chen-ko! Always believe in your soul!”). Xhaka sidled up to his new colleague. “Alex,” he joked. “I’ve been here for six years and I don’t have a song. You’ve been here for three weeks.” And somehow you just know how Xhaka would have said it, too: with that unique Xhaka-esque blend of blitheness and hurt, insecurity and defiance, the throwaway comment that actually comes from the most tender of places. Every player knows their songs. Every player knows when they don’t have one. And while some players don’t care, Xhaka has never been very good at disguising how much he cares about things. Take his extraordinary outburst after the 2-0 defeat ...

Vladimir Putin and Boris Johnson also feature as we select key people and look at what has happened to them since Sepp Blatter … Then President of Fifa, overseer of bid process. Now Banned from football. Continue reading... from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/oct/08/blatter-to-beckham-who-was-in-the-room-when-qatar-got-the-world-cup