As the most prestigious tournament in world football draws ever closer, billions of fans will begin making preparations to celebrate Brazil 2014 in style. Each country will welcome the World Cup in its own traditional way, with towns and cities cladded in the national colours to coincide with the carnival […]

In Sao Paulo, origin of the ongoing riots, a poster reads ‘don’t come to Brazil please in 2014’ – an odd site in a country with five World Cup victories, where the love for football is so deeply imbedded in the culture that workers are given time off to watch […]