it really be only 14 months since Fifa’s new broom, Gianni Infantino, took office at world football’s governing body – and a mere 11 since he told the Ken Griffey Womens Jersey world “I can officially inform you the crisis is over”? Next week’s Fifa congress is in Bahrain (but of course), and Infantino approaches it reportedly on the brink of his second personal ethics investigation since ascending to the presidency. His second! One has to admire his ethics ethic. Then again, there are strong rumours – denied at present – that Infantino will use the congress to push for the replacement of Fifa’s ethics chiefs Hans?Joachim Eckert and Cornel Borbély; a development which, it is suggested, would prompt a two-year hiatus in ongoing investigations, as the new appointees would be given that sort of timeframe to get on top of their briefs. Say what you like about Fifa, it’s a very understanding place to work. Team Sharapova use deep waters of euphemism to wash away drug stain Marina Hyde Marina Hyde Read more Broom-wise, though, the newness http://www.officialmarinershop.com/Kyle_Seager_Jersey or otherwise of Gianni has always reminded me of that famous Only Fools and Horses scene when Trigger declares mistily that he’s had the same broom for 20 years, before mentioning that it’s had 17 new heads and 14 new handles. As his mate inquires: “How the hell can it be the same bloody broom then?” On this, as with so much else, I’m with Trigger. No matter how many new heads it has, a Fifa president still feels very much the same bloody broom. Like his noted predecessors in the office, it feels as if Gianni’s primary function is sweeping crises under the carpet. Still, if we may celebrate his past year’s achievements for a moment: he is the lawyer who was discovered to have failed to sign an employment contract when he took the presidency – “a compliance issue”, it was eventually found, as opposed to an ethical one. Ditto all the private jet flights he took in the early months of his presidency. Occasionally, Infantino has to stoop http://www.officialpadrestore.com to things concerning actual football, and has duly instituted a lucrative yet product-aborting 48-team World Cup. And now, according to reports in last weekend’s Der Spiegel – denied again – he is under preliminary investigation by the ethics committee over allegations of exerting prohibited influence on April’s Confederation of African Football election. Perhaps most explosively, senior Fifa powerbroker Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah has just resigned from all his positions within football, accused last week in all but name of giving bribes to the Guam FA president, Richard Lai, in exchange for votes and support. Advertisement Last Thursday, Lai pleaded Alexei Ramirez Youth Jersey guilty in a New York court to bribery charges. He was obviously – and presumably until that precise moment – a
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