FIFA going down the drain

Egan · 05-29-11, 12:57 PM

So Bin Hammam and Warner are now suspended pending a full inquiry but Blatter has been cleared of any and all charges of wrong doing by FIFA's 'ethics' committee and is free to run for the presidency which he will of course win uncontested because the only challenger was, wait for it, Bin Hammam.

Turned out nice for Sepp once again, hasn't it?

I don't understand how he can possibly be cleared of anything before the inquiry has even begun. Surely, at the very, very least, he should have been suspended until the committee has finished it's investigation and the election should have been put off until after everything had been decided.

The only way to deal with FIFA in general and Blatter specifically is for the organization to be dismantled. It's now making the United Nation's Human Rights Commission look positively moral and upstanding. It's disgusting.

Mind you, it's not just FIFA itself that disgusts me. The whining about impropriety from various parts of the English FA would have been easier to listen to if they hadn't publicly tried to crucify and silence elements of the media when Panorama first broadcast their claims back before the bids in the winter. And Chuck Blazer, who seems to have been responsible for this current crisis, doesn't seem to have had much of a problem with them back when the US, like England, was bidding for the WC either.

Not one of them comes out of this looking very good.

05-29-11, 12:57 PM	#4
Egan Admiral Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,020 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	So Bin Hammam and Warner are now suspended pending a full inquiry but Blatter has been cleared of any and all charges of wrong doing by FIFA's 'ethics' committee and is free to run for the presidency which he will of course win uncontested because the only challenger was, wait for it, Bin Hammam. Turned out nice for Sepp once again, hasn't it? I don't understand how he can possibly be cleared of anything before the inquiry has even begun. Surely, at the very, very least, he should have been suspended until the committee has finished it's investigation and the election should have been put off until after everything had been decided. The only way to deal with FIFA in general and Blatter specifically is for the organization to be dismantled. It's now making the United Nation's Human Rights Commission look positively moral and upstanding. It's disgusting. Mind you, it's not just FIFA itself that disgusts me. The whining about impropriety from various parts of the English FA would have been easier to listen to if they hadn't publicly tried to crucify and silence elements of the media when Panorama first broadcast their claims back before the bids in the winter. And Chuck Blazer, who seems to have been responsible for this current crisis, doesn't seem to have had much of a problem with them back when the US, like England, was bidding for the WC either. Not one of them comes out of this looking very good.