TUNNEL VISION

Non-fans out to avoid World Cup in Houston can go underground

- JEREMY CROSS

ESCAPING the World Cup might sound like an act of sporting treason to most people.

But for the residents of Houston, there is a life without football to be had.

And it can be found in the subterranean tunnels that stretch for six miles below the normal world above it.

Think Spaghetti Junction on steroids.

The ‘greatest show on turf’ might be taking place on American soil.

But head underneath a huge section of the stuff in this Texas city and the feast of football may as well be happening on the moon.

The climate-controlled network was built in the 1930s to connect two buildings owned by former Texas Governor Ross Sterling. The Houston Post-Dispatch and the Sterling Building.