'No place for pirates' - a press conference at the FIFA World Cup

At the 2010 World Cup, friend and collaborator Cameron Fink and I made stories for 'Santo Sam and Ed's Cup Fever'. I went to one England press conference as a pirate.

I’m not at Qatar 2022. I’d say it’s a principled stand, but then I wasn’t so principled that I didn’t buy tickets to all our group games in a mist of green and gold euphoria the day after the Socceroos qualified.

But after months of prevarication, my mate Cam Fink and I put them up for resale. It isn’t just the human rights abuses. I was at Putin’s Worl…