Fifa and Donald Trump would be a self-regarding match made in heaven | Barry Glendenning


The 45th president of the United States could be asked to back the 2026 World Cup bid – perfect for his very particular style of accountability

It’s been a predictably hectic first week in office for the president of the US, which he has spent fretting over the size of the attendance at his inauguration while signing bits of paper with all the abandon of a small child with a long stick who has just stumbled across an unsupervised blank canvas of freshly laid cement.

In the time it takes most civil servants settling into a job to obtain a security pass and computer log-in, Donald Trump has – among other highlights – signalled his intention to do away with Obamacare, given torture an effusive thumbs up, threatened the city of Chicago with martial law on the back of inaccurate crime statistics, inked an anti-abortion gag that will imperil the lives of women, ordered an investigation into nonexistent voter fraud and demanded the immediate construction of a 1,000-mile wall between America and Mexico.

Related: How Donald Trump almost bought Rangers (and Pablo Escobar's club)

Continue reading...