It's interesting that the US probe only focuses on two out of the six regions

I'm sure England sailed close to the wind with Jack Warner, inter alia, last time out - we're not as innocent as we'd like to think, though we're hopefully nowhere near as guilty as that c**t Blatter.

Honestly in a lot of meltdown situations the answer is to change the leadership, go back to the Why and start again. However in this case it's so rotten to the absolute core I can't help thinking that it really is a case of tear it all up.

Leave 2018 with Russia if needs be to mollify Putin. But everyone pull out of FIFA and do it properly, from the ground up, with the right safeguards built in, proper transparency and accountability and a system of governance that's at least remotely defensible. And human rights built in so we never again see so many "cheap" lives sacrificed to help a nation deliver a few stadia for a few games of football.

Honestly, I think FIFA is unreformable and the only answer is to start from zero. To be sure, despite it all, FIFA has done an incredible job in promoting and propelling football to the front as the major world sport (name any other sport you can go literally anywhere and talk about - I travel very widely with work and though I can talk cricket in some places and pretend to understand rugby (I really don't) in others, football is the lingua france worldwide). However it's now in a place I don't think it can get away from. Blatter must go, but FIFA must go too.

Posted By: Old Man on May 28th 2015 at 23:15:22

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This is an excellent, well-balanced article on FIFA. (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 28, 21:48:25
- One silly statement....... (Other Football) - usacanary, May 28, 23:47:53
  - you still don't get it (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 29, 01:37:34
- It's interesting that the US probe only focuses on two out of the six regions (Other Football) - Old Man, May 28, 23:15:22
  - yes, the regions whereb they wereb stupid enough to..... (Other Football) - usacanary, May 28, 23:35:02
  - PS on the world cup... (Other Football) - Old Man, May 28, 23:18:43
- There must be better ways of structuring it than one FA, one vote though (Other Football) - King, May 28, 22:13:06
  - Platini wanted the 2022 World Cup in Qatar (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 29, 02:36:07
  - exactly........ (n/m) (Other Football) - usacanary, May 28, 23:58:04
- Except that maybe they'll now realise that they're no longer beyond the reach of the law (Other Football) - Higher Wrather, May 28, 22:07:34
  - What they now know is to keep their criminality to 3rd world banks (n/m) (Other Football) - usacanary, May 28, 23:56:57
- I've forgotten which country you're in but do you get any sense of how it's playing in (Other Football) - Bravo win or die, May 28, 22:06:38
  - Most people hate FIFA too (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 28, 22:14:01
- so its a case of..better the crook you know... (Other Football) - usacanary, May 28, 21:59:07
  - not what the article or I said at all (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 28, 22:12:33
    - We get it..... you are so superior...... (Other Football) - usacanary, May 28, 23:37:01
      - OH WOW! OMG! SUPER TILT! (n/m) (Other Football) - Brandonio, May 29, 01:36:15
  - Revolution, not evolution USA (n/m) (Other Football) - shoddy, May 28, 22:03:01
    - tear it up and start again IMHO........ (n/m) (Other Football) - usacanary, May 28, 23:50:30

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