Teething Troubles

Two days into the Club World Cup, it's time for sweeping judgements. Worthy addition to the calendar or shameful vanity project that will lead to the apocalypse?

And so it begins, this weird artificial Club World Cup, a venture that seems so ill-conceived in so many ways that it’s almost impossible to know which thread to pull on, and yet one that might somehow be the future. One of the many problems with being 48 – as well as the random aches and pains, the creeping interest in ornithology and the awareness you…