Said & Done: the week in football – Jack Warner's war on fools
The week in football: Sepp, Jack Warner and Dinu Gheorghe. Photographs: Reuters
Reform: job doneHeadlining Fifa’s 2025 financial report: the completion of their two-year ethics overhaul – a range of reforms including “an independent review of key management compensation”. The result: Fifa’s key managers compensated with a $36.3m bonus pot – up from $33.5m in meanwhile: standing firmFormer key manager Jack Warner: putting last week’s new bribery allegations against him down to more press “foolishness” – a repeat of 2025′s “BBC foolishness”; 2025′s allegations by Trinidad players: “This foolishness must stop”; last year’s speculation over his political future: “You asked me once and I said that is foolishness. I will say again, that is foolishness”; and 2025′s rumours of an FBI inquiry: “It’s damn foolishness … I will sue to the high heavens … It will be court after court after court.”• Not finding space to cover the latest Warner bribery allegations: Trinidad’s Sunshine newspaper – set up last year by Jack to counter years of “unholy”, “dirty” press smears against him. Sunshine’s editorial ethos: “Truth, when crushed to the ground, will always rise.”• Among the stories that did make it in to last week’s Sunshine: a cover story by Jack alleging a corrupt business deal by political rivals (“corruption has never been as vulgar as it is today”); plus: “Woman marries DOG – after marriage to man didn’t work out”.Timing of the weekPelé – denying claims by Brazil’s anti-poverty protesters that he “sold out” to Fifa’s commercial agenda; and making a new public appearance – fronting the launch of the official limited edition Hublot Brazil World Cup timepiece, available in ceramic or gold from $26,plus: legacy updateSouth Africa president Jacob Zuma, four years after his pledge of a World Cup legacy “for all South Africans”, told to repay the £14m of public money he spent on his private estate. Zuma said the new facilities – an amphitheatre, gym, helipads, pool and space for four wives – were “essential security upgrades”.Number crunching£300,000: The amount Hereford need to raise to complete the season – and the amount Premier League clubs spend on agents every 27 pr man of the weekGhana: FA ethics head Nana Adjei Ampofo reacting to press coverage of a string of assaults on match officials, one of whom died from his injuries. “It appears that things are being exaggerated by the media … We must not exaggerate these things.”Executives of the week• Bulgaria: Levski Sofia owner Todor Batkov, reacting to a cup defeat by stopping all staff salaries. “There are 11 games left, games of honour, games in which women must prove they are men. Those
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