OBITUARY: Pele was a cut jewel – sharp-edged, glittering and flawless

Brazil's three-time World Cup winner was perfect in every dimension and stands alone as football's greatest of all time

  His passing is mourned as universally as his conjuring of a football was a source of wonder from the poorest barrios to the pillars of wealth. He was the god of the beautiful game who transported a World Cup which England once deemed unworthy of entering into the greatest sporting show on earth. For…

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