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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
Sport
Ian Doyle

FIFA have let down Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk with demoralising U-turn

Clearly, FIFA president Gianni Infantino was feeling a bit less gay when he woke up this morning.

What else are we to think after the governing body effectively pressurised England and six other competing nations at the World Cup into not wearing an armband showing their backing for the OneLove initiative?

After all, it was only on Friday that Infantino proudly announced - among a whole host of other things - that "today I feel gay" as part of a 57-minute speech broadly defending the choice of Qatar as finals hosts that has already gone down as one of the most ill-judged press conferences in football history.

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