With Russia hosting the 2018 World Cup, journalists at the Manchester Evening News were inspired to work out what would happen if, instead of competing at football, the countries were judged on their record of defending press freedom and freedom of speech.
The World Cup of Freedom of Speech (graphic: Manchester Evening News)
By Alice Cachia and David Dubas-Fisher. This article first appeared in the Manchester Evening News and is reproduced with kind permission of the MEN
Now more than ever, football needs a free press. Investigative journalists have uncovered many examples of match-fixing and other corrupt practices – for example through the…