In Gordon Farquhar’s blog on the BBC’s website, Time for FIFA to ask difficult questions, he takes into account the issues touched on in the previous post. He comes close to comparing the current situation with FIFA to the International Olympic Committee’s problems with the bidding process for the eventual 2002 Winter Olympics at Salt Lake City. He recounts how the ethics commission established by the IOC created new rules and new codes of conduct, indicating that FIFA should undertake the same stance.
He goes on to claim that the “value of fair play, honest competition, respect and brotherhood” held little significance to the members involved in the scandal. Farquhar asks his readers whether they have entirely understood the implications of the allegations, perhaps indicating that there was more to the story, or the facts are being distorted.
Providing the readers with the opportunity to add their opinion on Farquhar’s perspective, I found the first comment posted the most intriguing. It states that Blatter (the head of FIFA) regularly “greases these guys palms”, possibly insisting that it was all a publicity stunt, as they probably already get their money’s worth. This blogger goes on to say that, “if its good for the goose”, then how did it end up in South Africa of all places?
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