The hardline stance which UEFA, backed to the hilt by the SFA, and their AFC and CONCACAF counterparts have taken to the FIFA plan to create a commercial subsidiary to run its main events, including the World Cup, should ensure that an ill-conceived, a downright sinister even, project is strangled at birth.
World football’s governing body, whose intention is to allow external investors to buy “minority, non-controlling” stakes in a new entity called FIFA Forward Enterprise, require 106 of their 211 member associations to approve their proposal for it to go through.
