Dion Fanning
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15 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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No, but when we did talk about it, Matt, we did make the exact same point that all through the history of football, FIFA's history, the integrity of the games themselves had actually managed to be more or less untouched by whatever sort of shadiness was going on.
when Ronaldo's suspension was lifted, that changed.
They were actually getting involved in the game itself.
And that was, you know, it wasn't just to do with his celebrity, it was to do with the fact that Ronaldo had just been to the White House, the nexus, if you like, between Infantino and Trump, he was part of it.
And this obviously is greater for the reasons you mentioned, but there is, like when people are saying, asking, is there any precedent for this?
There is, but it's only under the Gianni Infantino reign that we have this precedent.
And it is an appalling, what has happened in the last 24 hours is like shocking, but not surprising.
It is like, you know, we've been enjoying this wonderful World Cup.
It feels to me like, you know, you're swimming in a beautiful ocean.
And suddenly the effluent, which is Gianni Infantino's FIFA, is discharged into the ocean.
And that's what happened last night when you saw this.
You were reminded of the reality of the FIFA operation and especially now with its connections with Donald Trump.
So this is an extraordinary development.
People are talking about how I'd like to think it is very damaging for Infantino and the way he's running FIFA, but I would be sceptical ultimately that anything will change.
But it is an appalling development in how a World Cup is organised.
Yeah, no, that's exactly what happened.
You know, we might look at the Infantino-Trump nexus differently if, you know, Sepp Blatter, that upstanding citizen now, we look at the area on Rehan Ball.
If we were in Trump's good books and he was around then, maybe we would have been Team 33 in that World Cup when we had gone appealing because the rules are being bent to suit whatever Donald Trump
And Infantino won.
And Infantino is just delivering whatever Trump asks him to deliver.
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