Global Scoreboard: How Tuesday’s Football Results Quietly Ruled the World (and Changed Nothing)
Tuesday night saw the planet’s most popular recurring panic attack—international football—deliver another batch of scores that simultaneously mattered to billions and, cosmically speaking, meant absolutely nothing. Still, we all agreed to pretend otherwise, because it beats reading quarterly inflation reports. In Doha, Argentina beat Croatia 3-0 in a “friendly” so chummy that at one point…