Day -922. WorldCup2018.
Another part of the Fifa saga should be over next Monday when Platini
and Blatter are finally put out their misery and know that their
football careers are over. This Thursday and Friday they will appear for
the Fifa Ethics judge for their hearings in the case of the alleged
"disloyal payment" from Blatter to Platini.
The expectation
amongst those in the know is that they will both receive seven year
bans. While that will spell the end of Blatter's
involvement in football, I fear that Platini will not go away and will
somehow show up in Qatar for the World Cup there which is in....seven
years. He will just need for the ban to back dated a little bit as the
World Cup is scheduled to start in November. One wishes, after his great
career as a footballer, that he would just go away quietly and
graciously. But going by his questionable denials when originally
accused it doesn't seem likely. And with his son's suspiciously timed
involvement with Qatar Sports Investments, there is good reason to
believe that Platini and Qatar 2022 are not quite done with each other.
That could all change if this upheaval at Fifa leads to Qatar 2022 not
happening. But that's a different story, for a very different day, after
Russia 2018 gets sorted out.
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