00:00My reaction is that it was entirely inappropriate.
00:03Politics needs to be separate from football.
00:06In fact, the World Cup has one of its central tenets,
00:09that politics is separate from football.
00:11Now, that is now a matter for FIFA.
00:13I expect FIFA to do its investigation thoroughly.
00:17Well, we are very clear, and I'm making it very clear to you now,
00:21that we expect FIFA to undertake an investigation into this.
00:25It is, of course, I think it was certain to happen,
00:27because it was such an egregious violation of the rules
00:31of not having political activity as part of the football.
00:34So I think we can expect that investigation to unfold,
00:38and it certainly should do. It was entirely inappropriate.
Comments