He’s going to get through this, isn’t he? The little ratbag weasel is going to persist. Like a mutant cockroach wearing 200% Temu polyester pants while driving a lead-armoured Tesla after a nuclear war, Gianni Infantino is going to survive, isn’t he?If he does, it will be because he is a blesser and the poor of Fifa are in full Oliver Twist mode. “Please, sir. Can we have some more?” They have been thus since 2016, when Infantino promised them more money when he was standing against Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Prince Ali bin Al Hussein of Jordan, Frenchman Jerome Champagne and, er, Tokyo Sexwale. The South African withdrew before the voting took place, possibly worried he might become the first candidate in Fifa history to receive a negative score.Infantino won with 115 votes, 27 more than Salman, while Prince Ali bin Al Hussein got four and Champagne not a single bubble. Africa has 54 votes, the second-biggest voting bloc in Fifa after Uefa, which has 55.Infantino promised to double development money to Africa, a continent where many of the football associations live hand to mouth and, sadly and to the detriment of those “development” funds, also hand in till. For many African, some Asian and Caribbean federations, the Fifa grants are all they have to survive on. Under Infantino, around $1bn in funds has headed to Africa, which is no bad thing. Throw in a few more places in the World Cup and it is not hard to understand why Africa wants Infantino to stay. Money talks, and Infantino has talked little but money since he took charge 10 years ago.He has been the revenue president. The recent World Cup brought in $15bn (never mind those pesky US host cities still seeking to be paid the $1m “legacy contribution” promised by Fifa), adding to Fifa’s cash reserves of more than $4bn. All member nations were promised an extra $40m each if they backed selling off a chunk of the World Cup to the extended Trump family’s connection. To think, Judas got only 30 pieces of silver.But then Infantino got greedy. Hanging out with allegedly the most corrupt US president in history will do that to a man. As the Fifa president, he is on a paltry $6m a year before bonuses. He has one more term left if he can wag those caterpillar eyebrows alluringly before the next elections on March 17 next year. He is, it has been reported, keen to make serious money from football when his time is done.His re-election is by no means certain. Uefa and Concacaf have led the charge against it, and others have followed. Asia is said to be wavering; South America is sitting on the fence as they wait to see which way the wind will blow, and Oceania has been noncommittal.CAF, through its president, Patrice Motsepe, said: “He’s a loyal friend. ​He’s loyal to Africa. I come from a background where when people have been loyal to you, you never stab them in the back.” How’s that working out for your brother-in-law, Paddy?The selling of the family jewels — the World Cup — and the desperation for self-enrichment should be a red-line moment for Infantino, but nothing has been done to stop his autocratic moves since he took charge. Why should that change now? He breaks rules and ignores concords. He cuddles and canoodles with the corrupt and capricious. He made up a peace prize, FFS. How do you like your ethics, Mr President? Why, hand-wrapped in gold leaf, of course.In June 2014 Lord Triesman, the former independent chair of the Football Association, told the UK parliament: “Fifa, I’m afraid, behaves like a mafia family. It has decades-long traditions of bribes, bungs and corruption.” In that same week, Fifa delegates met to ease the way for Sepp Blatter to have a fifth term as president. Blatter accused those who criticised Fifa of being racist.On Wednesday, at an extraordinary meeting of senior executives in Rabat, Fifa issued a statement saying Infantino would remain as president and also issued a thinly veiled warning against criticising it.Get in line, is the message, and those members already standing in line with wallets open are puckering up. He’s going to survive this, isn’t he?