http://josimarfootball.com/fifa-in-the-dock/ is about Trinidad and Tobago fighting the normalisation done by FIFA. Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court of Justice is hearing the case today because the plaintiff can't afford to go to CAS. One issue is what happened to $2,500,000 that FIFA gave Trinidad and Tobago. A big issue is if FIFA started normalisation after visiting Trinidad and Tobago in February like FIFA says, or if FIFA started normalisation in January. The article accuses Infantino of normalising Trinidad and Tobago because Infantino supported David John-Williams, who lost the TTFA presidential election on 24 November 2019. The article says that Kenya, who has asked for normalisation, and Haiti, whose FA president ‘Dadou’ Jean-Bart, is accused of sexually assaulting female footballers, were not normalised because Infantino supports the FA leaders of those countries. Infantino supports the Director of Development for Africa and the Caribbean, Véron Mosengo-Omba, who can be given power of normlisation in any of those three countries, which connects countries in different confederations. FIFA statutes say that FIFA cannot be challenged in a country's courts. In a separate scandal, former Basel police chief Markus Mohler wants Infantino investigated for collusion for a TV contract while Infantino "was the legal affairs director of UEFA." I am not saying the article is neutral, but accusations of crimes, leaders contradicting each other, and countries unable to run their FA are bad for football regardless of who is right. Regardless of who wins in court or any place else, there are times when fans are guaranteed to lose. In a time when not many sports are played, it makes it easier for the biggest football news to be about a scandal in a country with a low population.
FIFA's MO in these situations is: 1) Threaten suspension. 2) If that doesn't work, carry out the suspension. 3) Wait for public pressure to do its job and watch the local football officials come crawling back to the table. Only thing is, this works much better in countries where football is the undisputed #1 sport (e.g. FIFA's brief suspension of Peru circa 2009). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think people in Trinibago are gonna take to he streets over this...
Regarding another country with a scandal, https://www.fifa.com/who-we-are/new...nt-provisionally-banned-from-all-football-rel is titled "Haitian Football Federation President provisionally banned from all football-related activities."
https://www.fifa.com/who-we-are/news/fifa-statement-on-trinidad-and-tobago is titled "FIFA statement on Trinidad and Tobago."
Damn, FIFA gettin' salty So the clear takeaway here is that Trinibago are on the verge of getting suspended unless they back down.