Why should we be troubled by this? An inside job, and inside appointment, and a person and trained lawyer and football administrator called Gianni Infantino. It reeks of the familial, the comfortable and a distinct desire not to change. To almost everybody else outside this debased organisation we know as FIFA, things might look sordid. Within it, it seems tempered, even and consistent. Some members of the football commentariat, including Australian football columnist Craig Foster, are none too pleased with the election by 115 votes of Infantino to the mantle of FIFA President. FIFA, Foster, “should have been forced to introduce governance reforms via an independent body in lieu of a later...
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