World football won’t heal itself. It is time for sponsors and broadcasters to pile on the pressureFifa is sport’s equivalent of a failed state. It is an organisation so self-serving that it has lost all contact with how it looks to the outside world. This the only way of explaining,in the face of multiple indictments and confessions of bribery and corruption, Fifa’s carry-on-regardless approach: its most senior officials inhabit a parallel universe.
That may seem harsh when the investigatory arm of Fifa’s own ethics committee has finally taken action against the three men at the pinnacle of the organisation. Not only the president Sepp Blatter, or but also Fifa’s general secretary Jérôme Valcke and the Uefa general secretary Michel Platini are suspended for 90 days. All three are under investigation by the Swiss attorney general and,in Mr Blatter’s case, reportedly also by the FBI. All three strongly protest their innocence. But so opaque is the internal trade of Fifa, and so totally has the organisation lost the confidence of observers,that many outsiders suspect that Mr Blatter is still somehow calling the shots.
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Source: theguardian.com