‘I wouldn’t pay it either’

Simon Skinner: World Cup Wallcharts, 25 June 2026

The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup 
by Jonathan Wilson.
Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May, 978 0 349 14573 0
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... tax evasion and money laundering. The 353-page report produced for Fifa by the American lawyer Michael J. Garcia and his Swiss assistant, Cornel Borbély, in 2014, as Blatter sought frantically to wriggle free of a tightening net, was a grim inventory of Fifa’s systemic corruption, exposing ‘a culture of expectation and entitlement’ and endemic ...

The Satoshi Affair

Andrew O’Hagan, 30 June 2016

... of the word ‘bloody’. He then named a 23-year-old Trinity College Dublin graduate student, Michael Clear, who quickly denied it. The story went nowhere and Clear went back to his studies. Then Leah McGrath Goodman wrote a piece for Newsweek claiming Satoshi was a maths genius called Dorian Nakamoto, who lived in the Californian suburb of Temple City ...