Effigy of FIFA President Infantino chosen for UK bonfire event

It has quite a good face for caricature, especially with the bald head and the big head, so that was fine, but it's always difficult to, on this large scale, to make sure that the likeness is there, because Obviously it's huge, and I can't actually see it. In a real world like this, because this is the first as time goes by, it's a bit of a guesswork, So it's quite difficult, but it takes about six days. I love our history, and I think traditions are fading away. so doing this is really not only for the world to see, but actually keep the truly ancient tradition going and since we can't have a fire, we do this and it proved to be a really good way of putting Edinburgh on the map and keeping up the amazing tradition. We always ask the general public to make their Suggestions for us regarding who they think should be at our event, and we did have a number of votes for Gianni, and what we do is a One committee is that we are looking at all the different elements things that, you know, would sort of To put him forward to be an effigy. So because there are all these different elements, We got the Peace Prize trophy, the red cards, so all the money from, you know, All the way, he was trying to somehow make a financial gain. with that sort of selling off part of the World Cup and all that stuff so it's to look at all the various elements that we can attribute to a particular person and how that would then become a caricature, we've had Lance Armstrong So, so it's not the first sporting connection. that we've had, um, you know, obviously politics Politics does feature a lot with the Prime Ministers, We've had Trump, Liz Truss. Politics is just such a big part of our lives, of the news, of everything else and it was quite nice to actually move away this time from a prime minister politician himself. We create the effigy—it's just a bit of fun, poking fun at someone. someone we think can handle it as well the more attention we draw to our event, the more people will come along, the more money that we will have to raise for local charities as well So it all comes down to that. For almost 30 years now, we've been carrying on the tradition. for nearly 30 years now. And that was simply because we were no longer able to have a giant bonfire at the recreation ground where we hold our event. So this was just another way of creating a focal point for the event itself. And have you heard anything from Gianni or FIFA in response today? No, not yet. But so far, this is what we've seen. It's a very positive response from the general public out there. So thank you everyone for supporting us.