In Rio and Manaus Fifa's racketeers will show they are the only game in town | Simon Jenkins

The English FA should quit the thieves who run this obscene World Cup. But Blatter can relax: chauvinism will, as always, come first

So the Manaus pitch is rubbish, a patch of burnt sand with streaky lines across it. The useless Brazilians cannot plant a hundred yards of lawn without fouling it up. How dare they insult the golden angels of English and Italian football. The groundsman should be fed to the Amazon piranhas. Manaus is a bungle in the jungle.

So say the British tabloids. Yet it is o...