Jonathan Liew
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674 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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Quite the opposite, in fact.
This may be the first World Cup where it actually wants to show its disdain for foreigners and that wants to invite the world to America to tell them how much inferior they are to the master race.
Yes, it is.
It is a massive cash grab for FIFA.
I mean, Gianni Infantino, when he was elected as FIFA president in 2016, it was his brief, his power base brief.
was and is the ability to generate as much revenue growth for FIFA and by extension, the World Cup, which generates the huge proportion of their revenue as possible.
The economic model of the World Cup, all of the revenue
that is generated through ticket sales, through hospitality packages, parking, merchandise, even food and drink in the stadium, as well as broadcast rights and licensing.
All of that goes to FIFA.
None of that goes to the host cities or the host country.
So that's why FIFA has been so desperate to take this tournament to the US market because of the prices they were able to charge and the access to that market.
And those stadiums and having that canvas almost upon which to charge pretty much whatever it feels like.
People I've spoken to who know him or who have dealt with him describe him as quite a small, weak man, a man who basically goes weak at the knees in the face of power and money.
And I think that makes him quite malleable.
to autocrats and dictators and people who want to pay top dollar for the World Cup tournament.
I think it's what explains a lot of his obsequiousness towards Putin, towards the Al-Tanis in Qatar, and certainly towards the Trump administration to the point where he's sort of wearing Trump baseball caps and borrowing his campaign slogans, turning up at his inauguration, awarding that grotesque FIFA Peace Prize.
That's why I called him a coward, because I think
True leadership is about having a moral compass, about having a purpose and a direction and being able to stand up for what you think and what you believe.
And I don't think Infantino's done that at all.
I think Infantino has essentially crumbled in the face of genuine conviction.
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