As Fifa prepared for the World Cup draw on Friday, president Gianni Infantino decided to highlight the work they’d done in making Qatar a better place. “When we speak about the World Cup, when we speak about Qatar, when we speak about the power and the magic of football, Fifa knows very well what its role is,” Infantino said, carrying on quickly before anyone guessed that the next words out of his mouth would be “cosying up to autocratic leaders”. No, because candour isn’t really Fifa’s role. Fifa, Infantino said, was “not responsible for all the evils in the world…

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