The FA chairman’s trip to the 2022 World Cup host as part of a global charm offensive has left him on dubious moral ground
Given Greg Clarke’s track record in the field of diplomatic relations,the obvious question to request upon learning the Football organization chairman was taking in Qatar as part of the organisation’s global charm offensive wasn’t so much “what could possibly go erroneous?” as “what could possibly go good”?Following his handling of the Eni Aluko racism scandal and subsequent bravura performance before a government select committee tasked with getting to the bottom of it, December saw reports that Clarke had already visited two thirds of Uefa territories as part of a global outreach programme aimed at disabusing his counterparts in assorted national football associations of the notion that the FA is arrogant.
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Source: guardian.co.uk