Disfigured, dishonored Football thick-skinned god. O. Mandelstam. On December 2, 2010, the Minister of Russian Sports and Tourism Vitaly Mutko covered the embrasure of the machine gun with his chest, walked a tightrope over the abyss in the rye, climbed to the top of Kilimanjaro without equipment and thereby forever entered the history of world football and sports in general. In Zurich, at a meeting of the FIFA Executive Committee, he, presenting the Russian draft of the 2018 football championship, delivered a speech in the great and mighty British language...