UPFROnT
Role
President
Look
Style
Innovation
Legacy
Election
FIFA (2016-)
RealMadrid
(2000-06,
2009-)
FIFA
(1998-2015)
Atletico
Madrid
(1987-2003)
UEFA(2016-)
GIANNI
INFANTINO
FLORENTINO
PEREZ
SEPP
BLATTER
JESUS
GIL
ALEKSANDER
CEFERIN
Third member
of Right
Said Fred
DavidCameron
in 30 years
DannyDeVito,
butSwiss
RafaBenitez’s
older,balder,
fatterbrother
Slovenian
Bondvillain
Expanding
World Cup
to 48 teams
for 2026.
Yippee...
Payinghuge
sumsforhuge
names– if only
someone
hadthought
ofit before
TurningFIFA
intothemost
unpopular
organisation
onEarth.Some
achievement
Shuttingdown
Atletiacademy,
allowingRaul
tomoveto
Real.Oops...
Champions
Leaguefinals
tournament.
Barcelona
werebigfans
Genial uncle
turned overlord
GrandDukeof
theGalacticos
Tryingnotto
getshowered
inbanknotes
byLeeNelson
Irritable–
wentthrough
39 bosses
in 16 years
Once
accidentally
smiled,vowed
nottorepeatit
Happytimes
inEurope,
plusa pig’s
headincident
- muchlike
Cameron,then
Ridingaround
Madridon
elephantwhen
Atletiwonthe
title.Asgood
a timeasany
Qatar
2022,plus
praisefrom
RichardKeys.
Yousmashed
it,Sepp
Aninspiration
tostony-faced
Slovenians
everywhere
It’snotonlytheUSthatholdspresidentialelections
- inLaLiga,thewinnerendsupridinganelephant...
Defeated the
mighty Jerome
Champagne
and Tokyo
Sexwale
Ousted
LorenzoSanz,
unopposedfor
secondstint
Wonfive
terms,seeing
offLennart
Johansson,
IssaHayatou
andthepolice
Victorious
afterdeathof
oldnemesis,
Vicente
Calderon
Victoryover
Dutchman
Michael
vanPraag
THE FOOTBALL GRID
Playing 3,
legends
matches
every year.
Gianni loves
a kickabout
WHO ARE YA?
Kevin Day
(Bloomsbury, £14.99)
OOOOO
Blending nostalgia, under the
radar knowledge and popular
culture, comedian Kevin Day
reviews the idiosyncrasies of
all current 92 League clubs,
explaining why you shouldn’t
support each of them.
Day is at his best with more
off-beat offerings, including the
disputed origins of the terms
‘Mackem’ and ‘Geordie’, and
Leicester’s ‘whirl and switch’
tactics during the freezing
winter of 1962-63, which saw
them dubbed the Ice Kings.
He also paints an affectionate
pen portrait of Birmingham’s
bearded ’60s star Trevor Hockey,
about whom ITV commentator
Hugh Johns would invariably
comment, “Hockey was letting
him know he was there”, as he
scythed down another foe.
Day laments Brentford’s move
from Griffin Park – with a pub
on each corner – to their ultra
modern “stadium campus”,
and muses that, for all their
recent success, swathes of
Manchester City fans still view
the club’s third-tier play-off
final victory over Gillingham as
their most cherished memory.
An entertaining romp through
the back alleys and glamour
parks of English football.
Jon Spurling
REQUIRED
READInG
QUOTE OF THE MONTH “One of us can do the
fighting, the other can do the biting” – Diego
Costa welcomes Luis Suarez to Atletico Madrid
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