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For those seeking an alternative to FIFA, Joseph Blatter, the European Club Association may be a more acceptable option

What is a

punch in the face or a knee in the groin? Politics, greedy opportunists who run FIFA, or politics, greedy opportunists who run the richest clubs in Europe? Joseph Blatter, and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge?

The most obvious answer is C (none of the above), but after a week that saw the saber rattling over football cut the director of Braveheart, think we have to take sides. Switzerland is not, unfortunately, in the coming battle over who controls the game, just more of the same from Switzerland Blatter own Mr. Magoo.

FIFA President was in the worst of myopia, on the eve of the preliminary draw for 2014 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, has set a timetable for the "reform" of the world Football body. "We're going step by step ... We will not make decisions without contact with the parts we need, "he said." There is much work already on the table, we have had contact with organizations working on transparency, personalities systems working in the fight against corruption, we talk about the United Nations that such committee. "

God thank you, FIFA has spent the last year involved in scandals of corruption so widespread that the festivities this weekend have been reduced to the status of "welcome diversion", that Blatter could be accused of winning time in the hope people will forget the scandals and move on.

fat chance. Which brings us back to Rummenigge, who in his role as President of the European Club was selected as the bearer of the lead coffin for the old order of football. The revolution is underway, according to Comrade Karl-Heinz.

"Sepp Blatter said [to clean the store], but the fact that nobody believes what he says all you need to know," he said. "They believe that the system works fine as is. It's a money machine, World Cup after World Cup. And for them, what is more important that the government seriously and clean. no longer accept that [should be] guided by people who do not take it seriously and clean. "

Rummenigge has found the ideal candidate to replace Blatter and his allies, as the leaders of the World Cup, he and his friends in the CEA. "I'm ready for a revolution, if it's the only way to reach a solution," he said.

The solution is that the CEA - or at least the richest clubs and more powerful - to break with the established structures of football players without them and their obligations to international competition and establish what has become known over the years as a European super league.

We've been here many times before, only to clubs and governing bodies to agree to maintain the status quo, but with some minor adjustments in the periphery. The last

Entente Cordiale revenue next year is expected to exceed $ 9 billion (£ 5.5 billion) - most of which come from television. This number will increase dramatically in coming years as TV offers (for a combined $ 20 billion) to run and renegotiated. Up.

These are obscene amounts of money and would require an unimaginable degree of selfishness of European clubs to pursue their own interests at the expense and their national associations. What is the English football, but Manchester United and Chelsea? And Spanish football without Barcelona and Real Madrid
"It will just be a closed system [competition] is closed forever. How boring is that?" Said Malcolm Clarke, the Federation of football fans, "dismissing the idea of ??a rupture.

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