The Guardian's blogger James Montague on the World Cup 2018 campaign - a vision for what 2018 could look like if there were a two state agreement between Israel and Palestine:
Close your eyes and picture the scene: it is the group stage of the 2018 World Cup and England (it's an outside bet, but for journalistic purposes let's just suppose they made it to the finals) follow the same path they always do in international tournaments, a narrow victory against some form of footballing minnow followed by a goalless, soulless draw, probably against Sweden. And then comes the crunch match, in a state of the art stadium near the azure waters of the Mediterranean. In, erm, Gaza City.
No, I haven't been smoking crack. While England, Australia and the United States gear up for a long bout of sycophancy and arse-kissing to secure the rights to host the 2018 World Cup, a rather more problematic, if noble, potential host is coming up fast on the outside fence: a joint Israel-Palestine bid.
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