Analysis: Spare a prayer for the suffering of a poor little FIFA president | GregBaum
When Greg Norman was asked in May about the bloodthirsty deeds of the Saudi Arabian government for whom he was working as a frontman, he said: “
In what was supposed to be a preface to a press conference in Doha ahead of the World Cup, but became a pained and peeved 50-minute monologue, Infantino somehow turned inside out Qatar’s dubious human rights record and FIFA’s acquiescence in it and made himself the victim. You see what he did there? He was no longer the president of the rich, powerful and infamously greedy organisation that was complicit in what was enslavement of the migrant workers, he was their saviour, a whistleblower, noble righter of their wrongs.
It wasn’t a media conference. It was a breathtaking and fantastical two-hour apologia for FIFA, exposing Infantino in his overweening self-regard and FIFA, again, for the born-to-rule cult it has become.
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