Fifa Go Home by MULL – CC.BY.40

A week to go until the big day when Brazil kicks off the World Cup.  There are another 4 days until the city I live in hosts its first game, and they are going to need every last-minute of it because they are still working furiously away on the stadium and the surroundings as I write this.

But the state of the stadiums is not my big fear.  A couple of them might not be perfect and make use of temporary structures, but that isn’t the end of the world.  Neither is the fact that only a few of the stadiums will have wifi and so fans will have to rely on the mobile networks to post their selfies.

Nor am I too worried about transport problems.  The people who matter (the players) will get to where they have to go to, and…