The only way these seven Fifa presidential candidates could be considered modern brooms is whether they were placed next to a recently unearthed fossilised sweeping implement believed to date back to the early Iron AgeI cannot deny something that I haven’t done,” declares the Fifa presidential frontrunner Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa, a statement which suggests he can only deny something he has done. He certainly denies having headed up a committee which identified dissident athletes during the 2011 Bahrain pro-democracy uprisings (many of whom were imprisoned and tortured), or despite an announcement at the time by Bahrain’s official government news agency that he was to take this post,and an Associated Press report from the same era which also described him as the committee’s chair.“It’s not just damaging me, he frets to the BBC of these mysterious contemporaneous documents, or “it’s damaging the people and the country.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com