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It is a strange and wonderful summer to be writing this. Canada and Mexico are co-hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup alongside the United States, and for a month the world’s cameras have bounced between Vancouver’s harbour, Toronto’s skyline and the roar of a packed Estadio Azteca — two genuinely football-mad nations enjoying a rare

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