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The Net Closes In??

The whistle has been blown on the “Whistleblower”. Word coming out of the USA is that the FBI are looking into the financials of Chuck Blazer, the man who helped with the downfall of Jack Warner in FIFA. Now the spotlight has turned to payments to Blazer accounts in the Cayman Island and Bahamas. Blazer is contracted to work for Concacaf but several payments have come from the Caribbean Football Union, a separate part of the regional confederation, tightly controlled by Warner for two decades. Blazer denies any impropriety. The most recent payment of $250,000 was in March this year, before the split. Blazer deposited the cheque in a Bahamas account and initially claimed it was ‘repayment of a personal loan.’ However Blazer now claims that Warner may have misused the CFU account and says he is prepared to repay the money.When asked about his offshore accounts and dealings, declined to answer whether any had been reported to American Tax or IRS. One such strange asset, happens to be a vintage antique Mercedes 300 “Adenauer” Saloon valued at around £80,000 that he had renovated over a two-year period. Blazer declines to explain why the car is registered in Zurich as belonging to FIFA. (Never mind a ticket,would you buy a car off this man?). Chuck gets good press in the USA over his ‘whistleblowing’ duties but, the replacement of ‘good ole Jack’ caused him to be sacked as a priority. This led to FIFA firing Austen and re-enstating Chuck! It is laughable that FIFA enjoys a status as a not for profit sporting organization. It is actually a sinister business organization operated by robber barons with no regard for ethics or integrity; power is all that matters.After Blatter’s farcial re-election on June 1, opposed by the English and Scottish FAs and a monstering by the world’s media at a post election press conference – he disappeared, re-emerging in Baku clasping the hand of Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev who guarantees a warm press, encouraged by the torture and imprisonment of critical reporters. Later Blatter turned up in Zimbabwe to an ecstatic greeting from Robert Mugabe. These are two of the most tyranical rulers in the world or should this mean three?Where next? The Commitee including Placido Domino and Henry Kissinger to help clean up Fifa appears to have evaporated.Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has called for the game’s top clubs to clean up football as he believes FIFA can no longer be relied upon to govern properly.Rummenigge, wants clubs to instigate a revolution in the game. This would mean once again Football running Football.

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