If you found out that the guys running the local pub side - the same one you'd been paying your subs to - had been mis-managing the club's funds even or paying out a tenner here and there to keep friends sweet, you'd stop paying those subs pretty damned quickly and so you should.
So why do the English FA - and others around the world who are beyond reproach - continue to feed money into FIFA?
Don't get me wrong. If FIFA was ensuring that financial support was given to promoting the game in developing countries and making sure that the kids there had shirts, balls and football posts, then fine. But that doesn't seem to be solely the case. Some very rich men at the top of their respective associations appear to be getting even richer by pretending they are helping the less fortunate and if this proves to be correct then that is both sickening as well as corrupt.
You can't, of course, accuse someone of corruption without proof, I grant you, but FIFA's own Ethics Committee has suspended members and is investigating others and it now appears that yet more of the governing body's big wigs have question marks hanging over their behaviour. Surely there is enough uncertainty for those national associations who still care about the game to step in and demand a complete overhaul of FIFA?
Allowing FIFA's Ethics Committee to investigate their own President is a joke - it was set up by Sepp Blatter in the first place. The Court of Arbitration for Sport needs to be asked to investigate independently and while normally I don't like to governments involve themselves in sport, this situation is right up their street as it's really about politics and corruption.
I'd like to see the big football associations of Europe getting together and demanding a full investigation of FIFA - forensic accountants and all - and, if they don't get it, they should withdraw and set up on their own.
Blatter is now unopposed to run for President of FIFA for another term this week and says he will root out all corruption, but the football world is asking the questions "Were you involved yourself?" and "If you weren't involved, should you be standing for President knowing that so many dodgy dealings have taken place on your shift?" Enough is enough Blatter, we want our game back.
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