What will it take to football-fix the global conflict being set in train by Fifa’s own Peace Prize Boy? The co‑host of the Fifa World Cup finals this summer is currently bombing one of its participating nations. Britain was involved in bloody conflicts in Borneo and Aden while it hosted the 1966 World Cup. It was a choice not just to award Trump a peace prize, but to invent a peace prize from scratch so he could win it, that fittingly gruesome drag‑me‑to‑hell golden bauble with its nest of clawing hands. A World Cup will take place if there is still a world left to contest it.

Source: Irish Examiner March 03, 2026 16:09 UTC