Comments on: FIFA: Mussenden Steps Down From Appeal

By: red

red — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:04:47 +0000

I am more glad than willling to applaud what should in essence be the norm…

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:33:03 +0000

So happy to see that David Sabir and Greg Grimes of the BFA were among a small group of Concacaf member associations that declined to accept the alleged bribe.
However,is corruption so pervasive in football and life in general that we find this action something to applaud? From were I sit, this should be the norm, shouldn’t it? Ok, call me naive.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:43:14 +0000

I feel confident that i am not alone in saying that FIFA and all of its regional Federations are in need of a deep, very deep, cleansing. For far to long football has had to live with this rogue entity that continuously provides the world press with fodder for their canons. Blatter, Valcke, Warner, Hamamm are just some of the long list of senior figures that have made global headlines with stories of corruption, lies and deceipt. Many of these acts if committed outside of football would be considered crimes, but not in FIFA, they simply find creative ways to pat the offenders on the wrist and say please be more careful next time. I was reading comments from a past President of the Asian Football Federation who called for FIFA to rid themselves of all executive members and start again. He went to to say and I paraphrase,FIFA officals enter into football to see how much money they can make. I couldn’t agree more.