The president announced the launch of Fifa Forward Enterprise, which is expected to have an initial valuation of $20 billion and could raise up to $4.2 billion by selling a stake of up to 20 per cent to external investors

A World Cup without Europe would cause sponsors and even spectators to walk away, given that only in Infantino’s rhetorical fantasy do some people dream of a final between Curaçao and Cape Verde. Unless a compromise is reached with FIFA, it will end badly

The unpredictability of performance is one of the few positive aspects remaining in a sport that the FIFA president is attempting in every way to undermine. The good news is that the new rules introduced at this World Cup have been an embarrassing flop