Why preparation isn’t everything at a World Cup | Jonathan Wilson

From high-altitude training to made to measure kits, teams have resorted to all manner of things to adapt to conditions at the tournament• Predict the winner | Daily podcast | Download our appThe heat and the altitude worried everybody. The 1970 World Cup in Mexico would not be a normal one. So the Bulgarian authorities sent their squad south of Sofia to get used to playing several thousand feet above sea level. Which seemed a great idea until somebody noticed that the temperature in the Pirin M...