Keir RADNEDGE
FIFA’s disgrace has been decades in the making
Stanley Rous is remembered popularly within the game as the traditional, archetypal English football official: an outstanding referee and FA general-secretary, then a naively well-meaning FIFA president overthrown by a streetwise pragmatist. Mere history? Not at all. Rous was one of the architects of FIFA’s present dysfunctional governing system.
Over the past decade, world football’s parent body has tumbled into disgrace through its inability to control the confederations.
CONMEBOL and CONCACAF were ravaged by money-grabbing crooks, while Oceania voted itself two corrupt, successive presidents. Asia’s
