Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of the oil business, stupidity is part of the football business.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

The actual mitigation is a drop in the bucket. However, they are showing how a big business like pro football cares about climate change and is willing to take action. Others may follow. The real power is in communicating about the problem and encouraging others to take action.

The discussion was about football, not state business.

I would say on the football side we are talking about days [before an announcement]. On the business side, we have a little more luxury, but with football, we have to be committed all the way now.