Trying to be uplifting while sounding fanciful. It took until the seventh day of mourning for FIFA President Gianni Infantino to offer any condolences. And when he did it was to claim football can play a role in ending hostilities between the Israelis and Hamas as a "vehicle for peace". That will seem a distant proposition for the Israelis grieving more than 1,300 victims of the Hamas massacres on their territory last Saturday. Or for those in Gaza feeling the full force of the retaliation - with Israeli strikes to eradicate the threat of a group designated a terror organisation...