Who really believes that there's no corruption in FIFA????

Can anyone ever believe this sport is free from corruption when it seems to go right to the halls of power at FIFA itself? If this is how business is done at the highest levels of the so-called "World Game" then the sport is a joke!!!!!!! You want something, then show me the money!!!!

The controversial former vice-president of world football's governing body FIFA has been caught on tape telling the organisation's Caribbean delegates they must decide whether to accept 'gifts' of £25,000 from disgraced former Presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam. The Telegraph (UK) has obtained footage of a meeting on 11 May, the day after Jack Warner is alleged to have offered delegates the money in brown envelopes.

Warner is taped opening the meeting by asking "Is the media here?" He then goes on to explain that Bin Hammam had wanted to bring some gifts – Warner refers to a "silver tray and some trinkets" – but that to do so for 30 people would be "too much luggage". So, says Warner, he asked Bin Hammam to bring cash.

"I said to him if you bring cash, I don't want you to give cash to anybody, but when you do you can give it to the CFU (Caribbean Football Union) and the CFU will give it to its members. Because I don't want [it] to even remotely appear that anyone has any obligation to vote for you because of what gifts you have given them."

Business is business
Later in the same meeting, Warner issues a typically robust challenge to anyone tempted to turn down the 'gift'. He says: "I know there are some people here who believe they are more pious than thou. If you are pious go to a church friends, but the fact is that our business is our business."

Bin Hammam was forced to withdraw from the election for the presidency and has been banned from football for life after being found guilty of attempted bribery. Warner also faced charges of paying bribes, but resigned in June before FIFA's ethics committee could complete its procedures.

Warner said at the time that any investigation would see him "fully exonerated" and that "gifts have been around throughout the history of FIFA". He went on "What is happening now for me is hypocrisy." FIFA said the ending of investigations following Warner's resignation meant "the presumption of innocence is maintained".

Ernst & Young

Warner's time at FIFA was dogged by controversy. In 2006, FIFA's auditors Ernst & Young found Warner's family had made a profit of at least $1m from reselling tickets to that year's World Cup. He was fined $1m and asked to sever all ties with the company concerned. But Warner's son and personal assistant remained at the company throughout 2006, and only $250,000 has been repaid.

Scottish FA President John McBeth says that Warner asked for money for a friendly between Trinidad and Tobago and Scotland to be paid into his personal account in 2004. Warner responded by calling McBeth a racist bigot.

In 2011, allegations that Warner asked for personal payments to back England's World Cup bid were aired by former FA chief Lord Triesman, and the BBC published correspondence from Warner to the English FA requesting funds for the purchase of Haiti's World Cup TV rights.

What a Joke!!!!!!