‘A puppy around Trump’: All eyes on smiling Infantino as World Cup crisis grows

Fifa’s almost blasé public response to the unprecedented Iran–World Cup crisis has raised fresh questions about how the organisation is run and whose interests Gianni Infantino is truly serving, writes Miguel Delaney in his latest Inside Football newsletter


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