Lineker should realise Infantino has a dodgy pal

noW does gary Lineker get what is wrong with his new best pal, FiFA president gianni infantino?

Last week, even the lickspittle ioC president Thomas Bach was forced to make a stand against Russia’s state-sponsored doping. Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter olympics, and sports minister Vitaly Mutko was banned from the olympics for life for what Bach described as an ‘ unprecedented attack on the integrity of the olympic games and sport’.

Almost immediately, diately, however, Mutko tko found a friend. d. Despite his role e in overseeing a programme which in effect amounts to the state-sponsored doping of more re than 1,000 athletes etes across 30 sports, includ-including football, Mutko will remain in charge of the World Cup, which will remain in Russia.

Within an hour of the ioC announcement, infantino’s FiFA rushed out a statement to say it had ‘no impact on the preparations for the 2018 World Cup as we continue to work to deliver the best possible event’.

So Mutko, president of the Russian Football Union and chairman of the World Cup organising committee, remains the face of the competition.

WADA called on FiFA to investigate Mutko (below) as long ago as July 2016, and Swiss prosecutor Cornel Borbely did begin the process, but he was removed by infantino and the trail has gone cold.

Miguel Maduro, a Portuguese law professor, was also fired from his chairmanship of FiFA’s governance committee, later revealing infantino had interfered with a decision to bar Mutko from the FiFA council. This is theth man Lineker, and many gullible others,oth consider to be a new broom afteraf the corrupt regimere of Sepp Blatter.B Lineker, wew are told, wore a rainbowr wristbandban while presentingsenti the World Cup finfinal draw, and ensured he was not required to meet Vladimir Putin backstage. Big deal: that’s gesture politics.

The frontman for the 2018 World Cup is a drug cheat, protected by the most powerful man in football.

Lineker was misguided in being their stooge and, the more we know of Mutko and infantino’s symbiotic relationship, the more apparent that will become.