Jonathan Wilson
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3,871 appearances
25 recordings
7 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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And I think the FA was sort of burned by them condemning Cefarin and his sort of fiddling about with term limits for UEFA president in 2024.
And nobody else, not even the Norwegians, who've been very sort of hard on FIFA, not even the Norwegians spoke up in support.
I think the FA were fine.
We'll just look after ourselves.
So I see very little hope of change, frankly.
Yeah, but I think even to put it in those terms is to put it in the terms Infantino wants us to put it in.
He portrays himself as this champion of the Global South.
And yet he would say, look, we've expanded the World Cup.
There's now 16 more teams and the vast majority of those are from the Global South.
And in many ways, that is a very good thing.
It is a very positive thing.
You saw, maybe it hasn't been anywhere near as vocal at this World Cup, but at the previous one, talking about how people in Europe should be silent for 3,000 years because of their past crimes.
And you're thinking, well, yeah, but right now, we knew that in Qatar, there were, I mean, however many thousand migrant worker deaths, at least related to World Cup projects.
And the idea that somehow the criticism of obvious abuses can be weaponized against the people making the criticism is... I mean, it's a classic populist trick.
And I think people go along with... People are so sort of terrified of being seen to ignore the...
the justified complaints of the Global South, that they sort of allow that narrative to develop.
And, you know, migrant worker deaths are disgusting, whoever's sort of causing them, whatever sort of cause is being espoused alongside it.
So I think what we've seen at this tournament with the issue with Omar Atan, the Somali ref, I think the fact that it varies from country to country, but...
Over 80% of applications for visas from fans from Africa going to the US and Canada were turned down.
A very high proportion of journalist requests for accreditation and for visas were turned down.
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