FIFA World Cup: Croatian midfielder Luka Modric, the superstar who isn't

The celebrity footballers have gone home. And an unassuming, under-appreciated genius will lead his team into the FIFA World Cup final

Where to begin? He was, as always, everywhere. Thirty minutes into the World Cup semi-final between Croatia and England is probably a decent place to start. So just past the half hour on a Moscow evening bubbling with febrile anticipation, Luka Modric received the ball in the opposition box. Space was expectedly tight and Modric tried to ghost past Jordan Henderson, the ever-pugnacious Englishman, who, to his considerable credit, stayed with him. Now confronted with Henderson at the byline, Modric, instead of firing in a low and wholly hopeless cross and winning a corner, pirouetted, sucked Ashley Young into his