Fucking FIFA Filth
If you don't like naughty words, I'm sorry, it's just that, well, no, no sorry, FIFA fucking suck. I'm a casual observer, I enjoy football but if it vanished from the planet I wouldn't be overly sad. For someone like me the blatant corruption and all round stupidness of FIFA puts a bit of a negative tinge on the beautiful game ... along with grown men rolling around in agony for being touched by an opposing football player.
There's a few matters at play here that make this a depressing situation. Well it's all kinda summed up by saying that there's no alternative, as FIFA answers to no one. They can dictate every last damn thing so what can a nation like England do to oppose them? Not a whole lot and if England can't do much then it's daft to think New Zealand or Australia can do anything to kick up a fuss. It's possible, it would take some creativity but it's possible to imagine life as a footballing nation outside of FIFA.
This comes on the back of some report that was kinda written by FIFA, with a cheeky chapter at the end explaining how Sep Blatter was a quality bloke who had done a lot to fight corruption. Right. It zoned in on how World Cup locations were picked, a vote in which you could basically buy a bid. England foolishly put a whole heap of effort in to try win the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, only to loose because well, they didn't have a choice. Then floating around like the elephant on helium in the room is the whole Qatar World Cup decision, not a whole lot needs to be said about that besides sarcastically saying "Let's play a World Cup in the middle of summer in the Middle East, not like it would be insanely hot or anything" to yourself.
The folk of FIFA can do as they please in any manner they please without anyone holding them to their word or justifying their actions besides blatant pursuit of da cash. It's a situation that has sort of crept in to existence, to say it crept in under the radar would be untrue as it's been pretty clear for a while. It's not upsetting that it exists, you'd expect every large sporting organisation to have some sort of corrupt (I prefer Kurupt) actions taking place at some stage. It's bound to happen but usually Superman comes in and saves the day, weeding out the evil ones and reforming things. There's no one that can save the day here.
As Kiwi's we judge the All Whites on their performance at a World Cup/actually getting to a World Cup. The benefits on the field and off the field are equal - the All Whites prove they're up their with the best in the world, giving the players an experience completely unique and of course the big bucks that come the way of New Zealand Football. The biggest footballing nations would struggle to survive financially without the World Cup, so there's not much to gain by protesting, boycotting the World Cup.
Anyone who tries to infiltrate FIFA with ground breaking intentions from the inside will be exterminated. To exist within the world of FIFA, one must simply play along. What else? Hmm boycotting the sponsors, the likes of Coca Cola? Well unless you've got Pepsi in your corner serving up similar money, you're not gonna say no to Coke. I guess you could build a crew of nations that have the same mindset, you'd need at least 10 nations, 10 of the top 10 nations in world football. You'd need the best players voicing their concerns, but it's hard to see Cristiano Ronaldo kicking up a fuss.
It's hard to see anyone doing anything really because, well, besides increasing levels of sillyness in the human race it only really means games of football are played in certain places. It doesn't affect the lives of every day people let alone professional football players, so as long as football folk are ok with me viewing football as the 'beautiful game with an elephant on helium in the room' then awesome. It's all about perception and the general perception of FIFA is terrible.