Business of Sport

Finally, we can draw a much-needed breath and, for the most part, just smile upon reflection.

Ewan McKenna.

Finally, we can draw a much-needed breath and, for the most part, just smile upon reflection. There’s just one problem though, because after the most remarkable five weeks in terms of both tournament and a location that somehow worked so well, the final didn’t fit in with what went before.

It wasn’t the chants from middle-class Brazilians, who have it better than most, that rang out around the Maracana as they shouted down ...