Money talks: Western hypocrisy laid bare
Uganda, Nov. 24 -- If there were any doubt that the politics of world football is a performance theatre, Fifa President Gianni Infantino laid it to rest 24 hours before the World Cup kicked off in Qatar. In an extraordinary 57-minute monologue to journalists assembled in Qatar, the president of Fifa, world soccer's governing body, conflated 12 years of sustained and hostile criticism of the West Asian/middle eastern countries' many failings with colonialism, Eurocentrism and Western hypocrisy. "I think for what we Europeans have been doing [for] the last 3,000 years, we should be apologising for [the] next 3,000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people," he said. He had more than a point when he critiqued Western 'hypocrisy'....
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