After months of teetering on the brink of full-blown silliness, World Cup organizers finally appear to have plunged into a vortex occupied by Teletubbies, giant talking tadpoles and Benny Hill lookalikes.
How else do you explain the decision to ban frozen food from World Cup venues this summer?
Preventing fans from entering grounds with a Heinz microwave dinner (as all self-respecting fans are wont to do) must go down as the biggest spoilsport act in the history of World Cup organizing.
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