This is getting exhausting. The Fifa mess has now taken another twist thanks to an admission from its suspended, soon to be disgraced President Sepp Blatter. A simple conspiracy theory would suggest that this admission was no slip-up, but a planned confession knowing that the consequences are going to have to dealt with by the people who are looking to say good riddance to Mr Blatter. Blatter, always the schemer, even projecting how he can screw people after he's gone.
Sepp Blatter said in an interview yesterday that the hosts for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were decided on before the votes were taken. Today his former adviser said "big players" on the executive committee agreed in "behind the curtain" talks who to award those world cups to.
Australia, who bid for 2022, had already said that they should get their money back, the money they spent on a bid that was all for nothing. And now those associated with the English bid for 2018 are saying the same thing. There was a lot of money spent. It is sickening that Fifa allowed all this money to be spent, knowing that it was all a waste.
So now this is a new branch of this Fifa story. It will play out over the next few months leading up to the presidential elections in February. And as all the bickering continues and the new President and Executive Committee have to decide if anybody needs to be refunded and where to find the millions of dollars, the man who was responsible for it all will be enjoying his forced retirement, chuckling all the way to the proverbial bank, probably still finding ways to avoid any criminal charges.
http://m.bbc.com/sport/football/34671834
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