DOHA, Qatar -- It is one year since the most controversial World Cup in history began with a sales pitch from FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
After years of criticism over the decision to award the biggest sporting event of all to Qatar, taken prior to his appointment, Infantino launched a scathing attack on what he described as the "hypocrisy" and "racism" from countries he considered to be moralising over the Middle East nation's human rights record. Telling us all that "today I feel Qatari ... Arab ... African ... gay ... disabled ... a migrant worker," he went on to castigate the West for double standards in focusing on Qatar's worker abuses.