Alan O'Riordan

Standards Editor @storyful

[Mike Keegan @MikeKeegan_DM]

🚨 LUIS FIGO: ‘INFANTINO MUST GO’
⛔️ In explosive @MailSport piece Portuguese legend calls for FIFA chief’s head
🔥’The most cravenly self-interested behaviour I have ever witnessed’
😡’A grubby, underhand plot’
💣’He has lied, deceived and tried to feather his own nest’
https://t.co/0w37kesqZh

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

♻️ Re-Turn chief executive and board share six-figure pay rise

🔺 Body formed to manage deposit return scheme has faced political pressure to disclose remuneration to chief executive Ciarán Foley

💶 The not-for-profit company paid out total compensation of €700,000 to Foley and private sector executives from Coca-Cola HBC Ireland, Britvic, Heineken, Musgrave and Diageo who sit on its board

Read more: https://t.co/zErzTlSg6e

[Constantin Gurdgiev @GTCost]

This is what makes my blood boil: I sit on two charities/non-profit Boards. No Director or Trustee receives ANY compensation on both of these. Not a cent.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: U.S. host cities for the 2026 World Cup are chasing FIFA for millions of dollars they believe they were promised by soccer’s governing body that have so far gone unpaid. https://t.co/u4RjrmLdjg

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

New York City hosts an annual Elaine Benes dance-off during the Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball team's "Seinfeld Night" at Maimonides Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn.
This commemorates the Seinfeld episode "The Little Kicks," in which Elaine dances with her iconic "little kicks" and thumb motions. Any true Seinfeld fan will say this is one of the funniest episodes that aired.

[Bertrand Ndongo @bertrandmyd]

Máxima tensión en las puertas de un Mercadona de Ceuta donde los inmigrantes intentan a la desesperada conseguir algo de comida.
@periodistadigit

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

"We need the military on the streets. They are not here. We are alone"

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted.

An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

France is tightening border controls with Spain as thousands of migrants surge into Ceuta from Morocco.

Paris expects the flow to move north through Spain, prompting Madrid to deploy extra police and troops.

Finland's interior minister is also backing Meloni's proposal to suspend Spain's membership in the Schengen area.

[Ewan MacKenna @EwanMacKenna]

So people understand...

For a year, behind the scenes, Gianni Infantino had secret plans to sell off football (which isn't his) to private equity (who squeeze every cent out of every cent so think of implications on fans, players, tournaments, timing, dynamics).

Not only that, via insider trading he was low balling it to mates (the Kuschners and Trump) who promised his salary would go from 6m to circa 64m plus who knows what other perks.

And all these months later, when the facts leak, he has @fifamedia come out saying the problem wasn't the above, but the media telling people before he could tell associations he hid it all from.

Whatever about him resigning, he should be jailed.

[Rob Harris @RobHarris]

Full statement Carlos Cordeiro quits as Infantino's senior adviser at FIFA

Full statement

[Reuters @Reuters]

Spain estimates some 49,000 migrants crossed into the enclave of ‌Ceuta in North Africa over the past 24 hours, as they rushed by sea and land from Morocco https://t.co/sBZzgKOT9M

[Bloomberg @business]

FIFA is proceeding with plans to privatize its commercial business, despite threats from powerful European nations that they would boycott the World Cup https://t.co/AU5Xkgl64l

[Alan O'Riordan @StoryfulAlan]

Disgusting and dispiriting

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

The entire Fifa story just reflects so much of the modern world

Billionaires buying up things of public interest, and that somehow being sold as for wider good

https://t.co/E1s4XsADXz

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

- Sources say Infantino has been working on this plan for over a year, going back to Club World Cup
- None of inner circle knew
- suspicion that it was developed with financial interests connected to Trump

https://t.co/E1s4XsADXz

[Thomas O'Reilly @TOR_EuroCon]

Is Help to Buy and mass migration our era's equivalent of Anglo-Irish Bank?

For @griptmedia I look at the timebomb that is foreign nationals abusing Irish housing subsidies

Is anyone at @IRLDeptFinance / @DeptHousingIRL willing to shout stop before social damage done?

[gript @griptmedia]

THOMAS O’REILLY: As first reported by Gript, the Help to Buy foreign buyer scandal is breaking - and nobody knows the full scale. Young Irish workers priced out of potential family homes while their taxes subsidised purchasers who conceal homes abroad.

https://t.co/A9Ex1p0Lxg

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

FIFA has now confirmed to The Times this Infantino plan is under discussion with Josh Kushner as proposed lead investor

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

On a break but this is shocking

The World Cup is not his to sell off except, with no checks and balance in governance, would the member associations just vote it through? Who are they representing here?

Some of them might have to show a spine

https://t.co/EXgtelOth5

[Martyn Ziegler @martynziegler]

EXCLUSIVE: Fifa's president Gianni Infantino is planning to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors under a scheme that could potentially earn him tens of millions of pounds.
Investor discussions held with figures close to the Trump administration, say sources.

https://t.co/KM6YfUqKYq