Keir RADNEDGE

Ahmad’s CAF is biggest basket case in football

With apologies to Lewis Carroll, the never-ending stream of bizarre events within African football might well be termed “Ahmad Through the Looking Glass”. But who most resembles the Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, the Cheshire Cat and their fantastically gruesome colleagues is anyone’s guess. Right now, CAF is a basket case.

This is the reason FIFA president Gianni Infantino decided to send in secretary-general Fatma Samoura to effectively take control.

Africa’s confederation – and the game over which it sort of rules – has long been an administrative minefield. Never does an international tournament go by without at least one squad threatening a strike over non-payment of money or the accommodation chasm between foreign and home-based