Mark Steyn once wrote of the United Nations: ‘It’s a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix ’em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That’s the problem with the U.N.’
It’s a maxim that works double for Fifa, world football’s governing body, which has just cleared future World Cup hosts Qatar and Russia of any wrongdoing but managed to criticise the FA. The BBC reports:
‘As for Russia, they have also been cleared, although the report noted its bid team made “only a limited amount of documents available for review”.
‘According to the report, the Russian team hired computers that were subsequently destroyed, denying the inquiry access to email accounts.’
To quote Maya Angelou: You couldn’t make it up.
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