Joao Havelange, Fifa's honorary president, resigns over bribes

[Liquidator]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22351630

Interesting what it says about Sepp Blatter. Hardly a shining endorsement.

 

[Danners9]

20 years too late. It says the allegations date back to the 1990s, very easy to retire at 96.

The other guy resigned at 84. Doesn't really show FIFA is cleaning up its act, just that the scandals are buried deep and there are bound to be countless others with their noses in the trough.

 

[Pete Spur]

wank wank wank wank wank etc....

fuck all will change

 

[gilzeantheking]

More window dressing to try to appease the outside world.

 

[Gbspurs]

Does anyone really believe Russia and Qatar won their respective world cups on Merit?!

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

I think the whole organisation is rotten to the core and will continue to be seen as such until the men at the top are ousted.

The trouble is, it's like every football fans fantasy. Access to the best players/clubs in the world, free travel and hotels all over the world, you get to see every big game, every single game you want and you get to make decisions on running it. It's a football fans high and a massive ego boost to boot. And you get paid to do it! So of course Blatter et al aren't going to let go of that lightly.

I can't think of any other industry in which the organisation running it is so widely believed to be corrupt, so universally reviled and they lurch from one disgrace to another without so much at batting an eye in shame because the game, to them, is all about keeping their power. In any other organisation there would have been wholesale changes a long time ago.

This bunch of self serving ****s are a stain on the game and need to go as a matter of urgency. But they wont.