Everything wrong with the 2026 World Cup

Months before World Cup 2026 got underway, senior figures within Fifa already found the planning hadn’t been going “as expected”. And that’s saying something. When the hosting of Canada-Mexico-USAwas confirmed back in 2018, after all, the widespread feeling in football circles was that it was a return to the “familiar”.Two of the countries had already hosted three of the most successful World Cups of all, and the promise in the bid-book was that this would be