PARIS, Aug 4 — Fifa president Gianni Infantino’s ability to brush aside criticism and push through enlarged versions of the Club World Cup and World Cup lent him an air of...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has pulled the plug on the plan to allow private investment in the World Cup which had sparked a furious global backlash even among his allies.

Prime minister Andy Burnham previously said Mr Infantino was ‘the wrong man to lead the organisation’