You couldn’t get a cold bottle of Bud on the ground if your life depended on it. But the staff must be pouring some serious gentleman’s measures, way up there in the presidential suite.
Because if Gianni Infantino wasn’t still half cut when he addressed the world’s media on Saturday morning then FIFA ’s godfather must have been drunk on power alone. Infantino set off on a narcissistic rant for almost an hour and the more he spoke the more absurd, the more insulting and the more utterly outrageous this tone deaf monologue became.
If you didn’t hear it all then here’s an edited recap. If you are even slightly uneasy or uncomfortable with the fact that the World Cup has been bought and sold with Qatari oil money, then you are part of the problem. If you struggle to comprehend how more than 6,000 migrant workers could have perished - having slogged for a pound an hour i like victims of a modern day slave trade - then there’s a good chance you’re an Islamophobe.
