DarloOnTheUp wrote:
Either Blatter has been complicit or it's been going on without his knowledge, so he's either corrupt or incompetent. Neither of these two possibilities suggest he is the man to lead FIFA or to stop the corruption. He needs to go whether he's involved or not.
I don't think there's anyone who would seriously believe Blatter's had no idea what's been going on.
He's up to his neck in it. Whether he personally profited financially is a different matter, but if senior executives were up to no good, he undoubtedly knew about it and at the very least, allowed it to continue. At it's worst, he was on the take as well.
But you're completely right, he needs to go and should have gone years back.
The best hope is he and another load of senior officials get arrested by the authorities, and the whole thing gets torn to the ground.
As I've said before, there is no hope for FIFA in any form. Corruption and dodgy dealings have become the culture, the way things are done, not just at FIFA, but at the continental bodies like CONCACAF and CONEMBOL, and the national football associations too.
That's another point that gets overlooked. It's not just a case of taking down Blatter will mean everything is fine again. The whole structure is rotten and has to be burned down (metaphorically, of course) and then rebuilt from scratch.