We hardly needed reminding that football is the world’s game, but the President of the United States could not resist stretching the point by sending the entire planet and its news cycle into a tailspin over a chap by the name of Folarin Balogun, whose 15 minutes of fame would have propelled Andy Warhol into “told you so” land.
If professional sport is a form of theatre, this hot-ticket comic production hovered between the absurd and the surreal.

Rugby is no stranger to the realm of the ridiculous, as the administrators’ belief-beggaring treatment of Italy at the last World Cup but one – oth...