As human beings we live in an extremely materialistic world of moral pollution and stress where people sacrifice other important values by worshipping MOOLAH that they seek with excessive zeal!!
In the modern world, people’s worth are measured by the millions of moolah, in many cases ill-earned wealth they have stuffed in various offshore bank accounts.
It’s not strange nowadays to bump into old friends or boyhood buddies only when tragedy has hit the community or a certain family – to be precise at burials because weddings and high profile gatherings have now become a grey area for the don’t haves.
Modern society tends to oblige us to live within certain rules to pursue specific lifestyles befitting those related labels, nogal!
Lest we forget the old proverb that destiny is by choice, yours truly has been following with keen interest the ongoing scandalous allegations of corruption, bribery and money laundering that have engulfed the world’s football governing body FIFA.
What we have on our hands here is a kind of moral relativism, in fact, different cultures within different sporting disciplines regarding some kind of cheating as being worse than others waged by people with sinister motives.
If we are to collectively root out corruption, those at the forefront of this witch-hunt should not be selective. Cricket, a sporting discipline for the elites has been embroiled in match fixing for many years. The Hassie Cronje episode is well-documented testimony to that.
Who decides ultimately? What role does the associations’ affiliates have to determine what measures should be in place to investigate their umbrella sports bodies or federations.
Why did the apparent squeaky-clean Americans feel obliged also to investigate the crises-ridden game of cricket? I’m just asking.
It looks like there is an element of personal bias, which appears to have softened the edges of moral outrage, blurring the lines of critical thinking and conduct.
Yours truly has been made to believe vote buying is not a new chapter within the family of FIFA – hence one will be obliged to pose the following question: Why did those pursuing FIFA now overlook previous transgressions in terms of shoddy bidding practices by their own kin that would have provoked outcries and protests had it been visited upon them? So, where do we draw the line here?
Not that yours truly condones bribery, corruption and money laundering, but alas, one is inclined to be wary of this entire exercise. Africa is indebted to Sepp Blatter in a great way and his enforced removal could spell doom for the overall development of football on the African continent.
It can be argued and rightly so, that our pale-skinned counterparts are hell-bent on cheesing off certain privileges introduced by Blatter, away from us, such as the equal distribution of FIFA’s annual grant to all its affiliates and dozens of other ongoing projects engineered by the outgoing FIFA president.
Did I hear somebody in football circles asking the question as to how on bloody earth Germany can have the same voting power as Zambia? What does that tell us in detail?
Europeans don’t and have never considered Africans as their equals – FINISH and KLAAR !!!! I rest my case.