Defender · #25 · USA · 18 yrs
Max Rushden is joined by Robyn Cowen, Dan Bardell, Sam Dalling and Matt Hughes to look at how Fifa deals with its Infantino problemOn today’s podcast: we’ve all been there … tried to sell the World Cup on a Monday, get threatened with a boycott on Tuesday, wildly backtrack on a Wednesday, and you’re issuing further denials on Thursday and Friday and Saturday.Max and the panel take you through the Fifa story and find out if Gianni Infantino will cling hold to power. Beyond Uefa, is there enough of a groundswell to actually get rid of him? Continue reading...
Emerging from this week with unity over Fifa’s World Cup sell off was quite an acheivement but Europe cannot rest on its laurelsIt was a phrase not always heard when Europe’s football associations discuss a pressing issue. “Touchingly unanimous,” was the assessment of a senior Uefa executive within moments of Thursday afternoon’s seismic decision to boycott Fifa tournaments unless Gianni Infantino scraps his private investment plan. United fronts on this scale are vanishingly rare and there is now a narrow window in which to make it count.Fifa doubled down on its proposal overnight with “clarifications”, which blamed the media for disrupting the “consultation process” of a scheme that had been constructed under cloak and dagger. There was no suggestion that it would shift from its 19 September deadline to in effect ram the Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal through. Anyone would be forgiven for asking what the rush was but Uefa and its allies must not allow the next seven weeks to drag. Continue reading...
Hughes family heartbroken at unexpected lossFather of two joined Mariners as recruitment lead in 2025Grimsby have paid tribute to Alex Hughes after his death at the age of 38. Hughes, the son of the former Manchester United and Wales striker Mark Hughes, was player recruitment lead at the League Two club.The Hughes family said in a statement released via the League Managers Association that they were “heartbroken” at the “sudden and unexpected loss” of Alex and that he would be “deeply missed”. Continue reading...
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