FIFA: The Pips Squeak

It used to be said that if you squeeze a lemon hard enough the pips in it will squeak. This blog professes no expertise on the world of football and has always found the goings on at FIFA difficult to fathom. On the one hand it has had an extraordinary success in bringing football to almost all parts of the world and in funding the basic infrastructure of the game in the most undeveloped countries. The World Cup is a sporting event only surpassed by the Olympics. On the other there have been persistent rumours, accusations and pieces of evidence, which point to bribery and corruption on an alarming scale within and beyond this remarkable institution which has hitherto been far too widely accepted as a law unto itself.

Now the law is beginning to catch up and as the squeeze tightens on persons who have hitherto thought themselves untouchable, some are beginning to squeak  in a bid to save as much as possible of their skins. For FIFA as the world knows it, this is now the end game. It will be a very long one for sure but exactly how it will end and what will happen to whom is yet far from clear.