HOF (dpa-AFX) – The “Frankenpost” on the World Cup:
“The refusal of entry for the Somali referee Omar Artan and the authorities’ restrictive treatment of the Iranian national team are already casting an unmistakable shadow over this World Cup. But football has always won. The good, the beautiful in football. The history of sport is rich in moments in which the game on the pitch overwrote reality – and poor in moments in which reality erased it. But it would be negligent to believe that this will last forever applies.”/yyzz/DP/men