Adam Crafton
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3,906 appearances
28 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 2d ago
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And there's people who think that by extending the network of people who knew, that was one of the ways that that it that it got out.
I think in the end the plan was actu was actually to announce it last week, I think on Thursday or Friday.
In the end it obviously leaks out into the media on Tuesday.
And and that just once he lost control of the messaging
and lost control over how it was presented to his federations.
I think that made it almost dead on arrival, to be honest.
I think it was going to be uphill in any case.
I think whenever it was announced it may have it may have been killed.
But certainly the way it came out.
Because if you look at a lot of the criticism from the federations, it's as Matt says, they talk about
opacity and a lack of governance, a lack of process.
A lot of those criticisms wouldn't have really have been able to have been presented in quite the same way if he himself had presented it rather than it getting out in the media.
But there still would have been this argument of
You've drawn this all up in secret.
And, you know, we can we can get on to, you know, the the biggest elephant in the room, which was not only that, but you've done it with someone with the surname Kushner.
Right?
You you've not really hidden
what's going on here and the optics of that were always going to present a huge challenge.
The best thing about this is for his tenth birthday party at FIFA, he also got this book written by an Italian journalist basically celebrating him.
But at the con of a congress in Vancouver, you know, like many hotel rooms in America, particularly kind of middle America, have the Bible by the bed.
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