Infantino apologises to Fifa Council – but told he is still not fit to lead

President Gianni Infantino apologises to the Fifa Council for his World Cup sell-off plan – but is asked to go further. President Gianni Infantino has apologised to the Fifa Council for his World Cup sell-off plan – but has been told he is not fit to lead unless he releases all of the documents and answers key questions. The Fifa Council met in Zurich on Thursday for the first time since Infantino's secret Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal emerged. Under FFE, which Infantino scrapped within days, a portion of the commercial rights of football's world governing body would have been given to a private investment firm. In a three-and-a-half-hour meeting, Infantino also faced questions about US striker Folarin Balogun's suspended red-card ban, the Fifa Peace Prize and funding for national associations.

Football Association chair Debbie Hewitt – a Fifa vice-president – said afterwards that many questions remained unanswered. "One of the disappointing things is that we didn't get answers to anything that we had specifically requested – for example getting the papers from FFE," Hewitt said. "I asked the question 'why not?' – and we were asked to submit those questions in writing. "I think the man has to answer those questions and if he doesn't answer those questions now, he's not fit to be Fifa president – and that