The commentators                    01-06-15

...on Fifa corruption

Fifa has chronic problems that require a major overhaul in how it does business. Under Blatter’s presidency, which started in 1998, world football’s governing body has lurched from one corruption crisis to another. The arrest of seven senior Fifa officials in dawn raids last week speaks for itself. But is it really true, as many in the western media would have us believe, that all Blatter’s supporters have their noses in the trough?
- Vivek Chaudhary, The Guardian
Boris Johnson
I hope that the law now takes its course: that Sepp Blatter is finally forced to take responsibility for what appears to have happened on his watch, and to resign. If they had any sense of honour the sponsors would now pull the plug on this plainly fraudulent organisation. If the Swiss police indeed show that the 2010 contest was corrupted, then it will have to be re-run. London stands ready.
- Boris Johnson, Daily Telegraph
The Fifa fiasco is not just about football. It is also emblematic of a chronic problem with international bureaucracies of all kinds. The tendency of supranational quangos to become the personal fiefdoms of their presidents or directors-general, and to sink into lethargy or corruption, followed by brazen defiance when challenged, is not unique to Fifa or sport. It is an all too common pattern.
- Matt Ridley, The Times
It is delusional to proclaim that English professional football is a shining light of beauty in a game corrupted by dastardly sports bureaucrats in Zurich.
- Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail
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