Football's International Farce Association

This past week has seen the English FA belittled by the rest of the world. The question is, how do you stop a disease from spreading when the cure is ignored? Allegations into FIFA's corrupt governing body started way back when the votes for the next World Cup were being given. As we know, Russia will host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar will host it in 2022. Immediately questions were asked over how Qatar managed to get the World Cup but FIFA swept them aside rather quickly.

At first it was the English press that brought the allegations to light with Jack Warner being the man exposed. But is has took until last week's FIFA Presidential elections before anyone started listening. This was because both America and Germany also accused FIFA of being corrupt. This lead to Jack Warner being suspended along with Mohamed Bin Hammam who was running for Presidency. Following his suspension, Bin Hammam decided to withdraw from the Presidential election, leaving Sepp Blatter the only candidate to regain his position.

There was supposed to be a investigation into Blatter's part of the bride allegations but as he is the President, how can you prove anything against him? This would mean that Blatter would stand unopposed in what would be the most pointless election process. The FA tried to postpone the election until someone else stepped forward to compete with Blatter but the FA lost that vote 172-17.

The failed vote put the FA in a bad position. This was because the bigwigs at FIFA could use England as a scapegoat by saying all they ever do is moan and whinge when they should get on with it. Needless to say the election vote saw Blatter get re-elected with 186 votes, surprise surprise.

One change within FIFA saw Blatter change the World Cup voting system. Originally the voting system has seen representatives from the Continental organisations vote on the hosts of World Cups. But now, Blatter said, all 208 member associations will get a chance to vote. As for England, there's not a lot we can do. We are in the catch 22 situation because although we are against FIFA because of their corrupt nature, we can't exactly leave FIFA because there's nowhere we can go unless you fancy a tournament with the likes of Tuvalu?