FIFA President Gianni Infantino has described the 2022 World Cup in Qatar as the “best ever world cup”, which by most yardsticks can’t be denied. The numbers speak for themselves. According to the FIFA boss, prior to the third-place play-off and final, 3.27 million spectators had attended the games compared with an overall 3.3 million at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. This figure was already higher than Qatar’s entire population. The statistics he gave include 1.7 million visitors in the fan zone, television viewing figures hitting a new record of about five billion. USD 1 billion in excess profits and USD 11 billion in projected profits for next time. Undoubtedly, football fever across the globe reached a new height with the remarkable advancement of Morocco and their rekindling of  Arab hope. But, FIFA’s silence about compensating migrant workers has angered rights’ activists, and justifiably so.  It’s ironic that the most coveted match, the final, was scheduled on Int...