No POTUS, no party: Donald Trump, Folarin Balogun and a brutal World Cup reality check
There was a feeling in the air before the match, a fleeting, dangerous kind of invincibility. It came blowing in on the winds of political theatre, right after the US President stepped in to demand FIFA lift Folarin Balogun’s red-card suspension. But it had merely been a bureaucratic victory for show; a display of self-sabotage…
