Uefa has formed a rare but fragile united front against Fifa in battle for football’s future

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It was a phrase not always heard when Europe’s football associations discuss a pressing issue. “Touchingly unanimous,” was the assessment of a senior Uefa executive within moments of Thursday afternoon’s seismic decision to boycott Fifa tournaments unless Gianni Infantino scraps his private investment plan. United fronts on this scale are vanishingly rare and there is now a narrow window in which to make it count. Fifa doubled down on its proposal overnight with “clarifications”, which blamed th