"What should have been a celebration of the beautiful game at the FIFA World Cup draw instead curdled into a tawdry display of political fawning over Donald Trump"

What should have been a celebration of the beautiful game at the World Cup draw instead descended into a grim display of one man's political sycophancy.

As MAGA fanboy, FIFA president Gianni Infantino finally got to hand his seeming idol, Donald Trump , his newly invented “Peace Prize", the world of football was appalled. Staged just a mile from the White House, the draw at the Kennedy Centre - now chaired by the US president - had already been steeped in political theatre.

But few expected it to become the backdrop for such a naked act of adulation for a US President who, at the very moment he was being honoured for “p

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