Chris
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UEFA going for the jugular. "The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family." Translation: UEFA will back a opponent to Infantino in the Fifa presidential election on 18 March 2027. Montagliani?
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This is good, but it mustn’t be enough to release the pressure. Infantino has to go, and FIFA should undergo further reforms to ensure its governance is sufficiently fit for purpose that this sort of proposal can never see the light of day again.
Miguel Delaney@migueldelaney.bsky.social · 5d agoFifa confirm the plan is scrapped The immediate response of some association heads is that Infantino "still needs to go" x.com/fifamedia/st...
This is entirely correct and, I think, a real issue for International Federationss of many, many major sports. The commercial and media rights aspect has become so enormous, so influential, that it's made IF leadership largely the domain of people seeking a successful post-career office.
Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 5d agoAs the ship sinks, everyone will try and build their own story, a narrative for why what has happened should never have happened. But figures like Cordeiro and some of these national and regional football leaders have enabled this behaviour for quite some time. Their roles will have to be considered
As the ship sinks, everyone will try and build their own story, a narrative for why what has happened should never have happened. But figures like Cordeiro and some of these national and regional football leaders have enabled this behaviour for quite some time. Their roles will have to be considered
The conversation seems to still be geared around the scheme Infantino was trying to push. That ship has sailed. The real question now seems to be whether it is days, weeks or months for him in this job. It is a completely untenable situation now all these various actors are scurrying away from him
Reflecting today on how far ahead of the curve @fairsq.bsky.social and @ncgeehan.bsky.social have been on Infantino and FIFA. Would strongly suggest anyone who's had eyes opened to the awfulness of football's global leadership checks out FairSquare's excellent body of work on this. fairsq.org
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Burnham calls on Fifa president Gianni Infantino to resign over World Cup sell-off plans – UK politics live
Burnham calls on Fifa president Gianni Infantino to resign over World Cup sell-off plans – UK politics live
The prime minister says that the current Fifa general secretary is ‘the wrong man to lead the organisation’ The construction of a new Chinese “super-embassy” in London, which is set to be built near the Tower of London, can go ahead after a high court challenge against the decision to grant planning permission was dismissed, PA Media is reporting. The Royal Mint Court Residents’ Association (RMCRA) brought legal action against the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Continue reading...
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Carlos Cordeiro, senior adviser to Gianni Infantino, resigns in protest: 'Let me be clear: I had no involvement in this proposal, and I oppose it unequivocally. It is a bad deal for Fifa's Member Associations, a bad deal for football, and a bad deal for the long-term future of the game'
I know people like to take the p*ss out of Adrian but this is a great piece of writing.
I’d never cried during a live broadcast – then three poignant words had me sobbing | Adrian Chiles
I couldn’t help choking up when the writer Katriona O’Sullivan told me her life story. Now I’m on a mission to get everyone to read her memoir, writes Adrian Chiles
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I’d never cried during a live broadcast – then three poignant words had me sobbing | Adrian Chiles
I’d never cried during a live broadcast – then three poignant words had me sobbing | Adrian Chiles
I couldn’t help choking up when the writer Katriona O’Sullivan told me her life story. Now I’m on a mission to get everyone to read her memoir, writes Adrian Chiles
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Not that it should matter, but that Dunwich Heath wildfire hits close to home. I grew up a few miles from there, parents still in the area, and never once can I remember something of that nature happening. The climate crisis is here, it's real, and it should be our biggest focus.
That vast plume of white smoke on the horizon? Yeah, that's the Dunwich Heath wildfire. Viewed from where I am, 20 miles away. 😟 (what's that quote? Climate change is a series of events captured on a screen, getting closer and closer, until one day you're surrounded)
Infantino is the symptom, not the cause, of the problems in football governance. Nasser Al-Khelaifi is also a symptom of these problems. The solution is structural reform enforced by regulation, not a new leader from within.
Joking aside, 5 million novels a year plus computer games, the actual tabletop games, etc is a massive cultural industry. The Amazon series will only make that bigger. A ridiculously global British success story. And I’m surprised the newspapers didn’t run John Blanche obits in June.
Enough statements, enough words, enough "careful consideration", enough private disgust. It's time for UEFA and Europe to take action against what FIFA and Infantino are doing to football: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Uefa has to show backbone: concrete action can make Fifa’s World Cup plans untenable | Nick Ames
European football has shown an increased willingness to talk tough with Fifa but words can only be wielded so many times
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The (absurd, awful) FIFA proposal isn't the issue. It's a symptom of the wider issue, that football has hit a point where no amount of money, no matter how much, can ever be enough. And so they must always, always be looking for ways to generate more. Neither fans nor players come into the equation.
Had the somewhat questionable pleasure of seeing two distinct sides of the NHS yesterday. The incredible, unrelenting commitment of the frontline staff, and the remorseless pressure that they and NHS facilities are under on a daily basis. (1/9)
Interesting that the default platform of communication for many of these out-going Ministers still appears to be X. Something quite telling about their continued inability to separate themselves from a network that's been so invested in their political demise.
Raise the Colours, an organisation which has had one of its founders charged with murder, has been heavily implicated in a hit and run (currently under investigation), and another "leading light" faces trial for 22 indecent images charges.
Anna H@athenepallas.bsky.social · 2w agoThis may be a relatively minor thing for people, it may not but the whole phenomenon of 'Raise the Colours' and the shrug with which the government greeted it (IIRC at one point RtC was even tacitly endorsed?) continues to blow my mind.
This is a decision that gets worse on each replay. Clearly no foul, perfectly good - if scrappy - goal.
Chris@cscottaus.bsky.social · 2w agoThere’s no foul there
Horrible team, horrible player, delightful red card. Off you pop.
