Jonathan Liew
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187 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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This is The Guardian.
There comes a point at which the straw breaks the camel's back.
The idea that you would run to President Trump to save your skin when your job is under threat is quite comical.
It is encouraging that we've seen this groundswell of opinion against FIFA, but I just wish some of it had been crystallised and harnessed a little bit earlier.
The damage that's been done to football could have been averted.
To be really brutally honest, kind of nonplussed by it.
Really?
Having covered FIFA and football for, what, 10, 15 years and seen the indignities and iniquities that FIFA has got up to, it's...
It's almost kind of like a frog in boiling water.
You see the latest, oh, well, obviously they've overturned a red card.
Obviously they've given the World Cup to Russia.
Obviously they're going to sell a part of it off.
It didn't seem to me like a massive leap from the direction of travel that they were going in.
Part of me wondered whether private equity or private investors might introduce a layer of accountability
Almost that FIFA doesn't, you know, could private equity do a worse job of organising a World Cup than FIFA do?
Also, all these thoughts swimming through my head.
And I guess for the broader footballing community, it's really hard to know what the line is.
There comes a point, and we saw this with the Super League as well, the European Super League a few years ago, that people will almost tune out and tune out and tune out.
But there comes a point at which the straw breaks the camel's back and a cascade of opprobrium rains down on everyone's head.
And it's always really hard to know where that point is.
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