Fifa was bashed for 2-year World Cup idea but could it solve netball’s existential crisis?

When he began banging the drum for the football World Cup to be staged every two years, Arsene Wenger was taken aback by the “emotional” response to his proposal.

The chief of global football development for Fifa, Wenger was rounded on by fans’ groups, coaches and European governing body Uefa, whose president, Aleksander Ceferin, related “grave concerns” over a plan that risked “diluting” the competition.

Noises over holding a biennial finals have quietened amid a shift to vaster, overblown...