CHE - PSG

[Archer]

I like where this is going. Have got a pre-season "cup final" coming up, so I think you'll find that match ball is mine now.

 

[Big Cat]

The new corruption in the game is political influence
The days of financial corruption are yesteryear
That was a point made at the end of the Netflix Fifa documentary. Was it Netflix? I can't recall. Anyway, the recent in-depth documentary about Fifa
Football is in a dystopia that's not in the future. Indeed, I think this just mirrors the dystopia the world has entered into
I dread to extrapolate either into the future

 

[Archer]

@Big Cat Almost makes you misty-eyed for the days of Chuck Blazer and Tokyo Sexwale doesn’t it?

 

[RefereeX]

@Big Cat Almost makes you misty-eyed for the days of Chuck Blazer and Tokyo Sexwale doesn’t it?

These names mean nothing to me... if I google them on my work PC, will I end up with a disciplinary on my hands?

 

[Viridis1886]

Tokyo Sexwale

Great band. Saw them in 1984 in a small club outside Nuneaton.

 

[RustyRef]

OK, but this isn't a question of the organising body keeping the original trophy (which as you say, is quite normal). This is a situation where someone who has no business doing so - who has no connection to the game of football or the competition (apart from happening to show up for the final) getting to keep the original trophy, for no better reason, as far as I can tell, than his liking for shiny, gold-coloured things.

According to Trump, Infantino has already told him they don't want the trophy back (and he apparently also took one of the winners' medals).



Donald Trump takes a Club World Cup winners' MEDAL - and he's keeping the trophy in the Oval Office

As you say though, according to Trump. It could be true, it could be complete bluster, as is the case with anything that he says.