Back of the net!

Great to see Gary Lineker's comments today on FIFA calling into question the propriety of the Qatar bid and conduct of FIFA officials.  

‘Fifa makes me sick and Blatter runs it like a dictator’ he said in an interview with GQ magazine. Nice to hear a forthright opinion from an internationally respected player. A player who was never booked, Golden Boot winner in 1986, England's greatest goalscorer after Sir Bobby Charlton, and part of the magnificent 1990 side that narrowly missed the final by the width of a goalpost (yep, it still hurts).

Eric Cantona has also made his opinions on FIFA known and made excellent documentaries like 'Looking for Rio'. It's odd that honest people who know and care about the game passionately have to be on the sidelines watching it being eaten from the inside. As Greavsie might say, it's a funny old game.