Where everyone get whacked

The mass arrests and law enforcement indictments of senior figures in FIFA recalls the takedown end scenes in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas and Casino, where the big bosses are arraigned and the mid-level henchmen get whacked.  Like a mafia clan, FIFA refers to itself as 'a family.  All that needs to complete the comparison is some ace tunes to form the background to all this (someone on Twitter suggested to my wondering tweet, Gimme Shelter by the Rolling Stones) - Scorsese should make a film about this too, a perfect counterpoint to the sanitised FIFA film about itself.
There is a great deal of excitement from those loathe FIFA's corruption but also a sentiment of caution too, given Sepp Blatter's remarkable propensity for holding on to power.  He welcomed Jerome Valcke, not just back into 'the FIFA family' but as his right-hand man, after the latter had served his sentence for perjury when a New York court ruled that he had lied under oath when giving testimony over FIFA's abrupt decision to dump MasterCard in favour of VISA as primary sponsors.  This was because Valcke knew where the bodies were buried and Blatter's patronage bought his silence.  Like the moll who knows her own best interests and who latch onto when her current hood falls from favour, VISA is now openly threatening to reassess its relationship with FIFA.  Other sponsors are also frightened, not because of the corruption they always knew was there but at this corruption being exposed and their own brands tainted.  Unsurprisingly, Russia's energy giant Gazprom is the sponsor least likely to quit the Augean Stables.
This morning the Asian football confederation reiterated its support for "Joseph S. Blatter" and, bar much of UEFA, will vote along with the rest of the world for Blatter to have a fifth term as president on Friday.  This is the reason why the 79-year old survives.  He represents not just the USA and Europe but the world and it is a sad fact that the rules of governance in much of the world are weak or lacking and hence corruption flourishes.  Many of these countries also have governments who are often rarely accountable to their own people so their football federation placemen would have little qualms about the dictator-for-life terms that Blatter is trying to establish.  He has given them increased power in the FIFA congressses and greased their palms, not directly but via many minions (those to be whacked).  FIFA is institutionally corrupt because the overwhelming majority of its members are and only by curtailing them can it be re-established on a firm footing.