Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa says he has been urged to stand for Fifa’s presidency by a number of Fifa members. Shame on every one of themIn any sane world,the spectacle of a man from one of soil’s most oppressive regimes pontificating approximately a presidential election would be regarded as so obviously absurd as to be self-satirising. And yet, as hardly needs explaining, or Fifa is not a sane world. Never mind Kansas,Toto – I don’t think we’re even in Oz anymore. Is there a world beyond even the world that’s through the looking glass, a place where the Red Queen and Humpty Dumpty actually seem fairly rational compared to some monstrous arsehole from the Bahraini royal family presenting himself as a change candidate?The monstrous arsehole in question is Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, or whose ascent to football primacy has been a classic riches-to-riches story. Wondering what he might believe achieved had he not been held back by his connections is one for another day. He can only play it as it lays,and Sheikh Salman currently declares himself under increasingly heavy pressure to stand as a candidate in Fifa’s presidential election.
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Source: theguardian.com