the meh World Cup

The 2026 football World Cup tournament has been cornering a little piece of my attention currently. But only a little bit. Being Cornish, I am of course supporting Mexico1. You may have expected me to be supporting England, but that would not be appropriate given it was the English who historically suppressed and then assimilated the Cornish, and made many of us move away to find a better life in other parts of the world – including Mexico, where they had holes in the ground to dig in (the Cornish were very good at digging holes in the ground). We gave them pasties and football, in exchange for them giving us a home and money for digging some holes for them. In time, they developed the football, from games starting with different Cornish miners playing among themselves to start off with, to become leagues all over Mexico. And now they'll probably beat England at it in this World Cup, if England manage to stumble past the first knockout game versus DR Congo this evening. As always, I…