To think that the events at FIFA are not a crisis?

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The refugee and migrant problems are a crisis. The number of people drowning or being killed by people smugglers is a crisis. The state of the economy in Greece is a crisis.

A wealthy man charged with fraudulent payments because football is such a stupidly overpaid sport- not really a crisis?

I've lost count of the times the BBC has told me it's a crisis in the last 5 minutes.

Talk about making a crisis out of a drama...

YANBU. I've just turned the radio off for this very reason!

Yanbu

Depend who you are.

I personally agree.

DS, football obsessed, would agree that the refugee issue is far more important but would say there is a crisis in FIFA. And because it does affect many nations, many of whom are pitifully poor,and have depended on FIFA for huge support, it is more important than I appreciate.

Some might say there is an impending crisis in Labour, again not if the order of magnitude as refugees.

My broker friends are concerned about a crisis of confidence in China.

Oh, bloody football again.

YANBU

I turned the radio off this morning when it began wittering on about how it feels to be a true football fan.

If all of the money that Fifa had funnelled into offshore tax havens over the years had been recycled back into the youth game, more schools would have decent after school sport.

I loathe football
but corruption at the top of sport is a significant issue for the health and well being of the young

Thank you for your thoughts. I totally take on the ideas about the corruption and need to redistribute the proceeds from football.

When I rule the world.....

Don't forget that much of west Africa has benefited under this regime despite the endemic corruption.

( a/c DS, who can normally quote chapter and verse)

I'd call it a crisis, which will result in the deaths of innocent people. Qatar getting the World Cup meant/will mean slave labourers having to work ridiculous hours in extreme heat to build the stadia. Russia doesn't exactly have fantastic human rights records either, which will host 2018.

Football as the worlds sport can bring countries and cultures together like pretty much nothing else can, it can give people a purpose when they would have previously had none or they would have turned to something more destructive.

And football being an overpaid sport is actually a good thing, it brings the poor out of poverty when they would have nothing. Those players then pay taxes, which build schools and hospitals. And then there's the large footballer charities.

YABU, but if you don't like football that's fair enought, so your YANBU in that sense.