Jack Warner, the former Fifa vice-president and TTFF special adviser

I really could not care less about soccer (no offense to soccer aficionados).

But it’s a “big deal” in the Middle East, where the so-called ‘Palestinians’ have been trying to get Israel kicked out of FIFA because of ‘human rights violations.” Or something…

And, what better way to defend yourself against charges of bribery than to blame Zionism?

Via Times of Israel: Indicted former FIFA official blamed ‘Zionism’ for undoing in 2011

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, arrested in Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday on bribery charges as part of a massive bust of top soccer officials, previously blamed “Zionism” for a bribery scandal which saw him forced from the world soccer body in 2011.

Warner surrendered to authorities late Wednesday in his native Trinidad and Tobago after his name appeared on a list of nine current or former FIFA officials and five business executives who “abused their positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks,” according to US Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

Warner resigned from FIFA in 2011 after the organization opened an ethics investigation into the vice president for receiving cash “gifts” from former Asian Football Confederation chief Mohammed Bin Hammam….

“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,” Warner wrote at the time in a 1,400 word letter to the Trinidad Guardian….

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  1. Kitten says:

    It was the Joooooooooooos!
    Does anyone in the the world have an original thought these days?
    As Tammy would say: “Go home, Jack. You’re drunk!”

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