Moore to the point...

Brian Moore, the former England rugby hooker, had a very interesting piece in yesterday's Telegraph.
No, his down page piece wasn't about Israel, diaspora Jews or the Middle East peace process. In this instance, it wasn't even about rugby. It was about football, and the cravenness of the Football Association in the face of the alleged corruption at FIFA.

What is interesting is the reaction to Triesman’s candid claims. Alex Horne, the Football Association general secretary, said he would also pass on the information to Fifa’s ethics committee, but added that he regretted Triesman had not made his allegations sooner.
Let’s not forget that it was Horne who, in May 2010, called on the country to unite behind the FA’s bid to host the 2018 Fifa World Cup, saying that it was “. . . important that we can demonstrate to Fifa and the rest of the world at this time that we are serious about our bid for the World Cup 2018” and that “the gossip and the nonsense doesn’t matter.”
This is the latest revisionism of the reality of the FA’s bid - it was prepared to compete under a system it knew or should have known, is corrupt. It was prepared to employ questionable methods, such as employing a private surveillance company and only cried foul when it lost so humiliatingly.
It used important figures in pursuit of its objective, despite the possible, then actual, debasement of this country’s Prime Minister and future King, alleging anyone objecting to this grotesque farce and suborning of the national interest was a traitor.
The FA’s talk of working for change within the system is hollow. It knows; we know that Fifa will not change without insurrection...

There is a lesson here for all those who are craven and who lash out at those who do not agree with their sha, shtill... attitude towards Israel.

Only the threat of, or actual withdrawal from Fifa of Europe’s five leading Associations will provide the necessary agitation for root and branch reform. Their clubs underpin world football and without them it would fall apart.
All this talk of the football family is pointless in the face of Fifa’s rampant excesses and abuses.