If Karl Marx described religion as the opium of the masses a couple of centuries ago, then surely sport in general and football in particular is today’s opium of the masses (the more so now with World Cup group draws for rugby and football between Wednesday and yesterday). An open invitation for politics to rear its ugly head with a post-electoral Javier Milei administration seeking a more plausible target for its pet strategy of polarisation than a crestfallen Kirchnerism and finding it in the egregious figure of Argentine Football Association (AFA) president Claudio ‘Chiqui’ Tapia. The tempest in a teapot over Tapia inventing a trophy for Rosario Central turning into a raging storm
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