I’m a somewhat casual soccer fan, but I do love the World Cup, which is an amazing event despite the fact that FIFA makes the IOC and the NCAA look like a meeting of teetotaling Episcopalian good government advocates in a church basement in Scarsdale in 1957. In particular I love the agony and the ecstasy of the various fan bases, both at the games themselves, and in the watch parties in the cities where they’re held and all around the world. I …
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