Fifa has disbanded its anti-racism taskforce, because its mission has been “completely fulfilled”. This news will reverberate across football and beyond, and presumably herald a wholesale changing of the guard. Sam Allardyce will immediately stand down as England manager, having steered the national team to a World Cup. Theresa May will give up the premiership now that she’s proved, incontrovertibly, exactly what it is that Brexit means. Philosophers, having nailed down the meaning of life, will tend to their gardens.
The other way to look at it is to ask yourself: if Fifa’s anti-racism taskforce has “completely fulfilled” its mission, what the hell was its mission in the first place? A football anti-racism taskforce, you might imagine, would be a force tasked with implementing measures to end the game’s association with bigotry. If you were improbably optimistic, you would hope that it could produce some evidence of the work it had done, and the substantial success of its interventions.
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