Football and free lunches

FIFA. Federation Internationale de Football Association (and I’d still like someone to explain why it has a French name) goes from bad to worse. You will remember that two of its executive committee members were found to have sold their vote on the location of the world cup, and in a huff the committee decided not to award it to England, where the investigation had begun.

Now the FIFA President Sepp Blatter has decided on the creation of an anti-corruption committee to monitor the executive committee.

I suppose it is impossible to explain to a professional freeloader like Blatter that what is needed to cure the public’s lack of confidence in his executive committee is not another committee with buildings, free first class flights, secretariats, press secretaries, spin doctors and decent lunches.

It is, quite simply, less corruption.

And less Blatter.