
Gianni Infantino may well have been too busy handing iShowSpeed the keys to the footballing world to realise, but the swathe of empty seats which littered Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday was not a good look for his brainchild.
Infantino’s revamped FIFA Club World Cup has been condemned by cynics to be nothing more than a mere money grab, although some have welcomed the idea as a chance for the rest of the world to showcase their stuff against omnipotent European juggernauts.