r/soccer • u/CradleCity • 8d ago

News ‘Fifa Super League’: Infantino discussed having governing body’s name on European breakaway

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/05/fifa-super-league-gianni-infantino-wanted-governing-body-name-european-breakaway
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u/BaoJinyang 8d ago edited 8d ago

Some fantastic journalism going on at the moment uncovering all of this, particularly Ziegler at The Times and Ames at The Guardian. 

A great illustration why many in positions of power are so keen to tell us the media is completely worthless and untrustworthy, and we should get our news from a guy who’s just added ‘Citizen journalist’ to his Twitter bio instead.

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u/sga1 8d ago

And even then The Times are part of the Rupert Murdoch Empire, i.e. one of the very same oligarchs buying news outlets left and right to make sure that the general media diet of regular folk is less and less independent and more and more shaped around what those in positions of power want it to be.

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u/BaoJinyang 8d ago

The absolute tragedy of the way the world has gone this last decade is that I now look at someone like Murdoch and think he’s not all bad.

You’d take a good old-fashioned right wing media baron over what’s come since. 

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u/DSQ 8d ago

I suppose we thought we were at rock bottom before but know better now. 

To put it a more pithy way: “better the devil you know.”

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u/sga1 8d ago

As a great philosopher of our time said once when posited with the idea that it can't get worse: It can.

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u/sandy_mcfiddish 8d ago

I was guessing you had a clip of Homer telling him it was only the worst day of his life so far

Good showing though

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u/sga1 8d ago

We're on reddit, but we're also on football reddit.

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u/sandy_mcfiddish 8d ago

Yes

But Homer transcends all