Schmeichel and Stan put a special gloss on RT's World Cup coverage
Kremlin’s state-funded English language TV station is derided for its more sinister motives but its World Cup coverage has largely proved a pleasant surpriseTwo things in Russia are fairly constant. First, there is the scale. In St Petersburg I stayed in an average chain-style hotel that was like a ziggurat for alien giants, its footprint spread over roughly 4% of the world’s crust, spooling down into sub floors and bunkers and swimming lagoons, upper floors dusted with rock deposits from the rings of Saturn.Everything is massive. It’s also, and this is crucial, very far away. Related: England’s Harry Maguire offers perfect antidote to Panama power | Daniel Taylor Related: Stan Collymore: ‘The thing white men hate most is outspoken black...