It was already the most expensive World Cup in history - and now England fans face a wallet-busting 5,000-mile odyssey ...
While the production’s acrobatics are impressive, the series of contrivances constructed to motor the swerving plot do not feel earned.
But of course, it isn’t just the impact England’s potential deep run in the World Cup will have on the business that excites.
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