Brazil in no mood to party before World Cup draw  A Christmas
tree is decorated with soccer balls and flags at a resort of
Costa do Sauipe, Bahia, but not all of Brazil is celebrating.
Photo: Marcus Brandt/DPA/Press Association Images  Moving around
Rio de Janeiro you wouldn’t know there was a World Cup around
the corner. There are no flags or posters celebrating Rio as a
host city. Nothing. Maybe it’s just as well because any sign
promoting the tournament would almost certainly become a target
for the city’s prolific graffiti gangs.  Despite Brazil’s
obsession with football not all the population is keen for the
World Cup to be a success. A feeling felt most strongly by the
200,000 or so people who have been evicted from their homes to
make way for the tournament and the millions who took to the
streets to protest at the cost of it all.  They are likely to
protest again during the tournament and will be dealt with
forcibly by the police. It is likely the iconic Rio coastline
will not be the only backdrop to