Warner accuses Fifa of Zionism and racism

FORMER Fifa vice-president Jack Warner, who left the organisation earlier this year amid accusations of corruption, shows no sign of going quietly. He has accused football's governing body of racism and Zionism and renewed his threat to unleash a "tsunami" against his former employers.
 
In a letter to his local paper, the Trinidad & Tobago Guardian, Warner shrugged off a video that emerged last week of him offering Fifa delegates a cash "gift" from disgraced Qatari candidate Mohamed bin Hammam during the Fifa presidential election, and cryptically warned: "Ingratitude is worse than witchcraft."
 
In the 1,400-word letter he made a series of threats and announced: "I will talk about the racism that is within Fifa. I will talk about the levels of religious discrimination which I sought to correct. I will talk about the Zionism, which probably is the most important reason why this acrid attack on Bin Hammam and me was mounted."
 
He said that there had been a "conspiracy to protect the Fifa's throne for Michel Platini by getting rid of the Muslim Bin Hammam".
 
Despite its length, the letter was thin on details, though it dripped with threats. He accused current Fifa president Sepp Blatter and the head of Fifa in America, Chuck Blazer, of abusing their positions. "Let me assure all that the promised tsunami will come," wrote Warner. "All the real 'gifts' that Blatter gave to secure his two elections will turn stomachs inside out."
 
While the world waits for Warner to actually provide evidence of corruption, Blatter himself appears to be preparing to do just that. This week he is expected to call for the release of court documents that may reveal how Fifa officials took bribes.
 
Not many expected Blatter to come good on his promise to clean up Fifa, but his latest actions could lead some to reconsider. The papers relate to the collapse of Fifa's marketing arm, International Sport and Leisure (ISL), and are thought to show that senior officials were given kickbacks for granting media and sponsorship rights in the 1990s.
 
As for Warner, he has more on his plate than unleashing his much-anticipated tsunami. He is also minister for works and is in charge of the Caribbean nation's transport links. Next to his diatribe on the letters page of the T&T Guardian there are missives expressing concern about the new phasing of traffic lights, the state of the roads and the fate of the ferry link between the two islands. ·