Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown

For all his well-known capacity to ‘soak up’ and brush aside criticism of the administration of football in Guyana during his twenty-odd year tenure as President of the Guyana Football Federation, Colin Klass must surely be more than a little bit ‘jittery’ about what could lie ahead as FIFA takes unerring aim at the role which they now appear to believe that affiliates of the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) played in the so-called cash-for-votes scandal that has already seen the resignation of former FIFA Vice President Austin “Jack” Warner from football and the disgracing and booting out of football of the Quatari official Mohamed bin Hanman.

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FIFA has been blunt in its assertion that the CFU delegates knew more than they have been telling about exactly what went on at the May 10-11 meeting in Trinidad and Tobago. The Organization has demanded that the CFU officials “provide all relevant information within forty eight hours.” That means that they must say what they know about the cash-for-votes