The fall-out from the Luis Rubiales affair will roll on far beyond the immediate embarrassment incurred by the Spanish Football Federation. Just when Gianni Infantino must have thought he had sailed out into clear blue water.
Up until Rubiales, the one-time Hamilton Academical full-back, wiped the positivity of the 2023 Women’s World Cup out of the global headlines, Infantino had been enjoying the best half-year of his FIFA presidency.
First box ticked was at the start of March when Swiss prosecutors shut down an allegation that Infantino had breached company regulations over his use of a private jet to fly back to Switzerland from Suriname in 2017.
Red flags had been raised because Infantino’s original version failed the test of veracity.
