Sitting, waiting !

As the situation  involving the re-election of the FIFA chairman, Sepp Blatter proceeds towards his probable election I felt, listening to the local media, that this man was clearly implicated in the wrong doings of members of his team who are now under FBI control awaiting trial. It seems totally implausible that Blatter didn't know what was going on or that he was involved but, like Al Capone who was always careful that his lieutenants carried the can, (it was on tax evasion that they eventually got him) he has always stayed one step ahead of being found implicated.
Actually it was Chuck Blazier the American FIFA boss, who was also pulled in a couple of years ago on tax fraud, who has been singing to the American authorities, and is at the root of the arrests yesterday.
The common European voice has been one of condemnation. They naturally condemn the corruption and one is left to ponder why the Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries not only didn't condemn Blatter but said they would support his electoral hopes.
I put it down to a cultural blindness if and when it comes to paying bribes (the main accusation against those arrested) since coming from parts of the world were slipping the middle man the Rupee is par for the course.
But having listened to the history of FIFA under its president,prior to Blatter, Joao Havelange and how his aim was to pull the organisation away from the tight grip the European nations had on the game and make it a truly world by inviting a wider national base and ensuring that the massive profits were distributed amongst the poorer nations, this didn't go down well in Europe. Blatter since 1998 has followed in his footsteps and awarded the siting of the World Cup to emergent nations, spreading the largesse ever wider. It's no wonder the non-European nations support him. He continued to brake the hold of the 'established plutocracy' and they have been sitting on the sidelines waiting !!!

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