Rainstorms, ribs and Republicans: Two weeks inside America’s supersized World Cup

The day before England’s game against Croatia, I went to the JFK museum in Dallas, and it turned out I was not the only one. It is on the sixth floor of the old Texas School Book Depository and if you haven’t been, it’s excellent, cleverly laid out so that the story builds towards the fatal shots and suddenly you realise you are standing a few feet away from where Lee Harvey Oswald pulled the trigger. Or where the CIA says he did [winks].But I would be reading about JFK’s