For a plausibly bright bloke Gianni Infantino is impressively dim, taking us all for fools with his brazen sycophancy. A primary school ethics class would have little trouble weeding out the fallacies and contradictions in the Fifa president’s inane proclamations, the latest of which calls for the lifting of the ban prohibiting Russia from playing international football.
We should not, according to Infantino, “ban any country from playing football because of the acts of their political leaders”. We see you Infantino. The knee bend before Russian president Vladimir Putin is as clear an example of fawning over power as the award of a Fifa peace prize to Donald Trump, which of course gave the big, fat lie to the separation of sport and politics.
It is so far beyond parody to reward the Russian state with inclusion four years after it launched an illegal invasion of a sovereign neighbour, it does not deserve the consideration of mutant ninja turtles let alone salient human beings. Not only does it insult the intelligence of right thinking souls, it offends the victims of Russian murderous aggression in Ukraine, the war dead, military and civilian, the casualties and the displaced among the near 38 million population.
Infantino knows this, of course, but can’t help himself. Whether it be a direct siren call to Putin or at the bidding of Trump, his faux separation of sport and state is an appalling act of opportunism and appeasement that should be called out and was by Ukrainian sports minister Matvii Bidnyi, who described his comments as “irresponsible not to say infantile. They detach football from the reality in which children are being killed.”
The ban, according to “Infantilo”, has achieved nothing, other than contributing more “frustration and hatred”. So we welcome the Russians back into Infantino’s world and skip along holding hands while Putin continues his monstrous imperialist drive to make Ukraine Russian again.
“Having girls and boys from Russia being able to play football games in other parts of Europe would help.” If only someone had thought of this before. We could have brought Adolf Hitler to his senses, persuaded Joseph Stalin gulags were not the way, helped South Africa’s leaders understand the folly of apartheid, because no matter how brutal the regime, the beautiful game has a way of making us whole again. Ye gods.
What is really happening here is the appropriation of the world game by its most powerful figure for the purpose of personal aggrandisement. Infantino is a conceited, vainglorious, fool, who believes the world leaders to whom he kow-tows actually value and admire him. That he might be their useful idiot, allowing them to use the world’s biggest sporting event as a propaganda tool, has not crossed his tiny mind.
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How could it? He is too absorbed by the man he sees in the mirror. He loves the power his post affords him, mistaking that for what he believes are inherent qualities of his own. Big Gianni energy. God I’m so f***ing impressive, everybody worth a dime wants me at his table, the maker of men, the god of all things.
Trump would not touch Infantino with a goal post were he not Fifa head boy. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman would not wipe his feet on that polished cranium were Infantino not accelerating the normalisation of Saudi Arabia via the gift of the 2034 World Cup.
It was never you, Infantino. Your obsequious tokens of affection, the bizarre Fifa “peace prize”, the smug self-importance, all expose you for the absurd vassal you are, an inconsequential lickspittle masquerading as substance.
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