I sat through chaotic Club World Cup draw with Donald Trump surprise - Man City's reality is clear

If a draw is meant to set the tone and standard for a tournament, then expect next summer's FIFA Club World Cup to be chaos from start to finish.

The FIFA draw in Miami left anyone unfortunate enough to be watching dreaming of the much-maligned UEFA draws which drag on incessantly. The final team was drawn around 100 minutes after the scheduled start time for the Club World Cup draw, with nobody quite sure what happened in between.

If the Manchester City squad were gathered in the CFA theatre room to watch, you couldn't have blamed anyone for walking out long before all the teams were drawn. It started in shambolic fashion as FIFA president Gianni Infantino provided his own 'drum roll' sound effects to unveil the hideous trophy, and went downhill from there.

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We expect formalities to be drawn out at these things, but what we don't expect are gushing gestures to Donald Trump and his family. Getting the president-elect onside for the first of two major FIFA tournaments in the USA during the next presidency is part of Infantino's job.

By the time the draw actually started, Infantino had introduced a rambling message from Trump, encouraged two rounds of applause for his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner (who persuaded him over dinner to approach Tiffany's to make the trophy) and even invited their son on stage to draw the first team.

His favourite team is 'Paris', he said, before the clumsy choreography of getting a child to pick a ball from a bowl and hand it to his mother to read out... all in front of Gloria Estefan.

Trump spoke highly