FIFA Arrests

Uefa raided by police after Gianni Infantino dragged into Panama Papers scandal https://t.co/UY8x4abPLk pic.twitter.com/FCM1Acau9i

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) April 6, 2016

 

And their statement:

BREAKING: UEFA offices raided by Swiss police. Official UEFA statement. (Via @richard_conway) pic.twitter.com/hIg7g6Uul3

— DW Sports (@dw_sports) April 6, 2016

 

It's neverending.

Exclusive: Secret emails show #FIFA deleted recording of Council meeting. Instruction from #Infantino. He may get banned soon. @welt

— Tim Röhn (@Tim_Roehn) June 2, 2016

 

and completely unsurprising

 

#Breaking 3 ex-FIFA officials, inc Blatter, "co-ordinated effort to enrich themselves" which cost FIFA north of £55m pic.twitter.com/7oqWJUeDoQ

— PA Dugout (@PAdugout) June 3, 2016

While headline is eyebrow raising, top guys in sport do get paid a lot (see NFL for example... I think goodell gets 30M?)

 

I didn't say it was ethical or even legal. But the initial portrayal of large bonuses is less shocking to me given how much commissioners get paid in US sport.

 

That's probably what Infantino also thought, unfortunately he can't decide the salary himself. So he ensured that the one who does, chairman of the supposedly independent Audit & Compliance Committee Scala, can be let go. Of course with a change like that the committee members are easily pressable and hardly independent anymore, thus Scala resigned in protest. Didn't take long for Infantino to follow Blatter's steps and even up it more. And only the English FA was protesting. It's all rotten to the core indeed.

 

I find it hilarious that there are so many governance / transparency issues that while this may the one that brings Blatter down due to Swiss law apparently, I find it a distraction from the bigger question of the buying of hosting rights.

 

Blatter's allegation is that "hot and cold balls" were used during UEFA draws which therefore fixed the outcome.

— Get French Football News (@GFFN) June 13, 2016