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Editorial: FIFA’s cash grab has created a World Cup that will damage football

World Cup 2022 branding and images of players are seen on buildings in Doha, Qatar. Alamy

Qatar’s flawed bid should have been thrown out but officials shunned human rights concerns in favour of riches that will never reach those who need them most

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Groan Pain: Good riddance Mark Lawrenson, a dinosaur pundit who refused to keep up

The sacked Mark Lawrenson; Gary Lineker chats with the last of the old school, Alan Shearer, and one of the new breed, Micah Richards; Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville share a joke. Getty Images, Alamy (2)

The ousting of TV’s most miserable football “personalities” marks the end for a bland generation whose insistence on complacency and jingoism made them ripe for replacement

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When Friday Comes: Football revolution in the Middle East and the road to Qatar by James Montague

Penguin, £16.99
Reviewed by Rob Kemp
From WSC 425, October 2022
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We Made Them Angry: Scotland at the World Cup, Spain 1982 by Tom Brogan

Pitch Publishing, £16.99
Reviewed by David Pollock
From WSC 425, October 2022
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