Gianni Infantino and FIFA Represent Everything Wrong with the World. Here's Why

FIFA president Gianni Infantino is in some hot water right now. After a disastrous proposal to sell a stake in the World Cup collapsed, people are calling for him to resign. Now, your response might be to say something along my lines of, Simon, I don't care about football.

And, well, you're in luck, because neither do I. But let me tell you why you should care about this story specifically, because it's not about football. Not really.

It's about power, corruption, and the capture of institutions by global elites, or what we might colloquially call wankers. This story, though superficially about sport, tells us more about the modern world we live in today than most major political blow-ups. Hence why we thought it was perfect for this channel, Homefronts.