Smoke, travel and Trump threaten New York’s grand World Cup finale | World Cup 2026

The thick smoke that has engulfed New York and much of the eastern seaboard over the last few days has drawn wry smiles in Dallas and Los Angeles, where locals will watch on with a sense of schadenfreude when the World Cup final takes place in the New York New Jersey Stadium (usually known as the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey) tomorrow.

The Dallas and Los Angeles stadiums, which were passed…