The timing was perfect but Blatter blats on.

Couple of days ago Swiss police arrested officials of FIFA, the International Federation of Football Associations, at a hotel in Zurich. They arrested 7 officials indicted by New York Justice Department after investigation by the FBI. This is the same FBI which completely missed the 9/11 conspiracy despite all the attackers taking flying lessons in the US for months. FIFA is headquartered in Zurich in Switzerland so any allegation of corruption should be tried in Swiss courts and why are Zurich Police taking orders from New York. If FIFA is corrupt so is the International Olympic Committee or IOC. Charges of bribery were brought against US officials for the Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City but were thrown out by a federal court. Surely, the Olympic Games in London in 2012 must be thoroughly investigated to see whether Britain bribed officials. Sarita Devi lost because of blatant cheating at Korea but no official of the AIBA was arrested. No one is denying that there is huge corruption in awarding World Cup tournaments but these arrests stink of a US/British conspiracy. Not just awarding of tournaments, even results are suspect, such as Britain winning the World Cup in 1966 and France's victory in 1998. Britain has mounted a vicious campaign against Qatar ever since it was awarded the 2022 World Cup, which the British were sure they would get ( memories of the Empire and all that ), with the propaganda channel, BBC regularly focusing on the ' wretched ' condition of immigrant workers. As if they did not know that laborers are very badly ill-treated in the middle east. They are not paid, they are tortured physically, maids are regularly raped by employers and executed if they kill in self defence, but of course the Saudis spend huge amounts buying British and US arms, so that is alright. The US and Britain want to disrupt the World Cup in Russia in 2018 because the west is losing the war in Ukraine. Trouble is that they are minnows in football, so if they were to boycott the World Cup their absence will not be noticed. The timing of the arrests was exquisite, coming just before the election for president of FIFA. The conspirators thought that they would be able to postpone the voting and mount a campaign to get rid of current president, Sepp Blatter. If they could get their own man in maybe they could reschedule the World Cups away from Russia and Qatar. No such luck. Blatter won reelection yesterday. The European associations under Uefa will meet but what is it going to do? Break away from FIFA? They already have a European Cup so how are they going to organise a World Cup without South America and Africa? Perhaps they should listen to football legend, Franz Beckenbauer who said," It's not the person but the system. It's very difficult to change the system." Because all of them gain from it.