The curtain came down on this year's World Cup more as a wet blanket than a magnificent banner waving in the sun, writes Jack Todd for The Gazette.
On the pitch, Spain's victory over Argentina was perhaps the most one-sided 1-0 game in history.
As for the setting, the Meadowlands of New Jersey was as unwelcoming a concrete-in-the-swamp venue as you are likely to find. And in attendance were FIFA boss Gianni Infantino and Donald J. Trump, together the swamp personified.
