Today is another day when somebody else has said what I think. So, without any excuses I will use this story in The Guardian to be the voice of my thoughts.
Greg Dyke, is the Chairman of the English FA. If you don't read the whole thing this is part of what he had to say about the prospect of Sheikh Salman al-Khalifa winning the Fifa election.
"I think there is an issue about Bahrain. No one denies there were violations of human rights involving sportsmen and footballers that went on four years ago. No one denies that. The denial is over whether or not he was involved.
"The question is, does it matter whether or not he was involved, or is it the fact, can you have someone from Bahrain running world football, in charge of world football, given what happened there four years ago? I personally have my doubts."
And this is what Conservative MP Damian Collins had to say:
"He’s not been clear whether this committee met, what Sheikh Salman’s involvement was. He clearly did nothing to stand up for and protect the sports people and he doesn’t want to discuss it."
Collins also spoke about how the way the candidates are campaigning is too reminiscent of the old Fifa. Where is the new Fifa we were promised.
"He and the other candidates are going round the world in secret and in private with the associations trying to get their vote. He did this deal with the African Confederation [a memorandum of understanding with the Asian Confederation] before they endorsed him. Now was that linked to the election? What was promised? It was all done behind closed doors. For me this is very reminiscent of the way Fifa’s been run in the past."
http://www.theguardian.com/…/greg-dyke-doubts-sheikh-salman…
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