It says something for the enduring madness of Gianni Infantino and his band of cronies that they pulled off an impressive feat yesterday — the relegation of Jurgen Klopp to second place in the daily battle for football’s most absurd idea.
Klopp raised eyebrows with his hopes for a replay with Tottenham; Infantino raised a bar in FIFA’s ongoing vandalism of the World Cup.
If the plans he announced yesterday are ratified next year, then the 2030 edition, which has already been bloated to 48 teams, will be staged in Morocco, Spain and Portugal after a three-game preamble across Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay.