FIFA and corruption

How interesting the past week has been, corruption, sleeze, sackings from unauthorized people, and then our FA speaking out against something they don’t think is right, hypocrisy, in their own rule book that is a fine, just like a manager not speaking about a referee!

What the FA stood up for was correct, but to question your authoritive power is against everything they stand for, where is the FIFA respect campaign? Unless may I suggest that the FA jumps on managers to make money? You decide.

Anyway that is slightly off point, where do FIFA go from here? Sepp Blatter has been re-elected, he has over 170 federations in his pocket, but do the major associations back him, surely without England, Spain and Italy FIFA are nothing, UEFA would have to back the powers that make their money.

So do we need FIFA? The simple answer is no, certainly not at club level, let’s be honest club football now has far more importance than international football, most people think international breaks simply get in the way, at club level we have the Premiership, La Liga beemed onto our screens, Bundesliga easily viewable, Serie A at our fingertips, it is exciting, we have no less than 10 live games each weekend, a choice of games we want to watch, and do FIFA have anything to do with this, no they don’t.

FIFA is an organisation that the smaller countries hold onto because they have equal powers to the super nations, we already have the clubs creating their own European power base, well let’s pressure FIFA, let’s say fall into line or we won’t recognise you, we won’t lose out, it will only diminish FIFA and their power base.

What I did find interesting was once Jack Warner finally seems to have accusations that stick, he exposes everybody else, in FIFA’s Swiss offices there would be more potential explosive material than Bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout, we will never know how corrupt FIFA is, the deals that happen behind closed doors, we have always suspected and we now know, but I would imagine we haven’t even scratched the surface of the true nature of dodgy dealings.