You may think that after overseeing a winter World Cup in Qatar, the expansion of the tournament to 48 teams, the introduction of ‘hydration’ breaks to cram in more advertising, the sanctioning of exorbitant ticket prices and the overturning of a red card on Donald Trump’s say-so - after inventing a peace prize for the US President - to list just a few of the controversies attached to his name, FIFA president Gianni Infantino would have lost the capacity to surprise.
When he dropped a rambling statement defending his previous actions and hitting out at ‘haters’ of both he and FIFA on social media earlier this week though, we might have guessed that something was coming.
