Gavin Cooney

And the more money that is coming from the incumbent never hurts his re-election chances, does it?

Oh, I'd say it could be arrogance as well, Ciara.

I mean, this is a guy, you know, it's amazing to think back.

I mean, he was, you know, he was elected FIFA president just over 10 years ago after, you know, the disaster of the blot, the fall of blotter and disgrace and,

and the grubbies revelations from the FBI investigation and the arrests in the Swiss hotel.

And he was promising a new FIFA, like away from the greed and the opulence of Blatter's era to the point where he flew EasyJet to an IFAB meeting, basically a meeting of the decision-making board on football's rules in which he sits as FIFA president.

He flew on EasyJet there to show that, you know, I'm bringing football back to the people.

I am the normal one.

Exactly, his sign of humility.

And then we read that ahead of that Congress in Vancouver, FIFA had requested on his behalf a security detail in a motorcade below that only of the Pope and on a par with Donald Trump or any visiting head of state where he would be allowed, you know, skip red lights, etc.

So how things have changed, you know.

So no, certainly his ego has blossomed, shall we say, the longer he has served as the head of FIFA.

Yeah, no, that was a real old-time Gianni Infantino moment there on the eve of the Qatar World Cup.

And it was of a piece with a wider pushback against, obviously there was a huge amount of media scrutiny and media criticism on the hosting of the World Cup in Qatar, given it necessitated...

the labour of migrant workers which transgress various kind of labour and human rights.

That was of a piece with his pushing back against the media criticism, accusing the Western media of hypocrisy, saying the West should apologise for 300 years of crimes in various countries.

But four years on, he's now embracing Donald Trump and has given explicit endorsement to Donald Trump's political views at a Miami forum last year saying, you know, America should be very happy with the presidency of Donald Trump.

And we've seen him at the inauguration almost dressed like Trump with a long red tie and wearing that red baseball cap.

And America are not exactly apologizing for the crimes of the West over 200 or 300 years.

They're very much reasserting not only the West, but their dominance of it.