Gianni Infantino’s authority was dealt a further blow after his No 2 Mattias Grafström called the failed World Cup private investment plan a “sad and reproachable series of events”

The planet's most powerful football administrator Gianni Infantino on Saturday yielded to the international collective when he pulled the plug on a plan to allow private…

Infantino had proposed creating a $20 billion company to run the World Cup with private investors.