World Cup – fouling the beautiful game

In an act of breathtaking entitlement Trump demanded Fifa to lift the one match suspension of US striker Folarin Balogun after a red card foul. What was worse was Gianni Infantino in craven and immoral response giving in and lifting the ban. Uefa, European football’s governing body, said that intervening to effectively cancel a suspension at a tournament “crossed a red line”.  Of the 189 other red cards at the World Cup, only one other time has a player escaped a suspensio