Home and Away | Why Fifa presidential sham won’t be the cleansing of football we were hoping for
The forthcoming election should be a watershed moment for football. It will be anything but
The forthcoming Fifa presidential election should be a watershed moment for football. It will be anything but.
The five candidates vying to sit on world football’s throne all fail to instil the confidence needed to give Fifa the clean bill of health it and the sport desperately require after Sepp Blatter’s corrupt era.
Next week’s presidential elections is a charade, already classified by football supporters as null and void, a sham
It’s hard to keep a straight face when each of the hopefuls claim all is well when one of them takes the helm of an organisation embroiled in a major criminal investigation.
The aspirants may be innocent of any wrongdoing but each is guilty by association because all are too closely associated with the corruption culture that shamed football.
Allegations of match-fixing on his Bahrain FA presidency watch in 2010 aside, how hypocritical – not to mention immoral – for a Fifa presidential candidate riding on a democratic ticket, to also be a senior politician serving in a regime that violently smacks down its own people’s democratic desires.