Time to check in on Gianni Infantino, the only man on the planet who makes you wish the AI overlords would just get on with it already. If they’re coming for all the jobs, at least that means Fifa will at some stage be overseen by something other than this toadying grab-bag of cringe and gibberish. Who would even care what would come next?
The latest sign of the apocalypse on Infantino’s watch is the Fifa Peace Prize, the sort of wheeze you throw out as a joke in an ideas meeting when you’re too hungover to hide the fact that you’re too hungover. The Fifa president will be awarding it for the first time at the draw for the 2026 World Cup in Washington on December 5th. And sure who knows who might also be ligging about in Washington that day to accept it?
The Fifa Peace Prize.
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