Infantino’s idolisation of Trump has left football with blood on its hands | Barney Ronay

The Fifa president's sycophancy towards the US president has left the organisation facing a new nadir, but any reckoning seems a distant prospect

Mr President. Fellow exco members. We're going to need a bigger Board of Peace. How many minipitches are we up to now? Gaza got 50 of them last month. What will it take to football-fix the global conflict being set in train by Fifa's own Peace Prize Boy? Ahundred mini-pitches? Fourbillion mini-pitches? All the minipitches in the universe?

In a more sane version of what we must, out of habit, call the real world, it would seem absurd to talk about sports administration in the context of the US, Iran and the airborne conflict being played out across the borders of their allies.