FIFA-CONCACAF: Warner bites the dust

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The storm that had been blowing and strengthening in the direction of Trinidad & Tobago National Security Minister Jack Warner’s direction for the last five years or so, has finally hit him with full force. The former President of CONCACAF’s resignation as FIFA Vice President in 2011, signalled that he was beginning to perceive that all was not well. But having become a member of parliament in the major electoral victory of the People’s Partnership in the Trinidad & Tobago elections in 2010, and recognition by all and sundry that he had played a substantial part in achieving it, Warner no doubt felt, as many politicians tend to feel, that political office could shield him from pressure. But Warner probably underestimated the extent to which FIFA and its President Sepp Blatter, under pressure as the organization was increasingly seen to be riddled with scandal, would take action, especially after Warner, no doubt sensing trouble, sought to support the now discredited former FIFA member Mohammed Bin Hamman against Blatter, when the latter sought re-election to the FIFA presidency.