“Not just for the Fifa Club World Cup this year and the Fifa World Cup next year – we have to be in New York as well when it comes to where our offices are based.”
Gianni and co do have a men’s World Cup to prepare for in a year’s time, although Football Daily does not recall Fifa opening any offices in any of the previous host World Cup nations – Qatar or Russia – since Infantino was elected in 2015. “Places where people make decisions should only contain indirect light,” said former president Sepp Blatter after the building’s completion in 2006, a devastatingly bad attempt to distance himself from the image of a Bond villain. We’re honoured, we’re excited about all the things that Fifa is doing,” trumpeted Eric, with a straight face.
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Join Emillia Hawkins for piping hot Euro 2025 updates of England 2-1 Netherlands at 5pm all times BST, while Will Unwin will be on hand at 8pm for Wales 0-3 France. As a Dutch player I will do everything possible to win the game” – Vivianne Miedema has insisted she will “not be friends” with her partner Beth Mead as the two face off for England’s critical Euro 2025 game against the Netherlands.
Tuesday’s Memory Lane full email edition got me thinking of today’s overpaid top footballers and reminiscing back to a time when they could expect a more modest celery” – John Pickett.
I had a look and Chelsea have already spent over €267m this summer, on top of the more than €1bn they have spent since Todd Boehly took over three years ago. But in his broadside, Frankie says that Barry is ‘once an Offaly native’. !” – Bryan Evans.
It’s a slow week in football when neither Euro 2025 or the Copa Gianni generate more b@nter-worthy content than the observation that Manchester United are NOT going to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
