Fifa is back on the backfoot.
Gianni Infantino was accused of killing its reform process and of deliberately forcing out the man who helped save the corruption-plagued body from extinction.
Infantino’s conduct was compared to that of Sepp Blatter after he staged a secret power grab during the organisation’s annual congress to “destroy” a key pillar of the changes undergone by the organisation to make him and his council more accountable.
Immediate fallout -Fifa’s audit and compliance chief Domenico Scala handed in his resignation in protest.
Prince Ali Bin al Hussein accused Gianni Infantino of a “complete betrayal” ….
Fifa have gone into a media overdrive to try and convince folks that they’ve all got it wrong and that their motives were as pure as the driven snow all along.
Ah well.
It was too much to hope for.
As Shakespeare said long ago.. “A Blatter by any another name will smell as foul.”… or something like that anyway.