FIFA's corruption web is gradually unravelling

Traditionally it is the Mounties who always get their man, but in pursuing and bringing down Sepp Blatter and now Michel Platini the FBI has done something that for a long time seemed impossible: the web of corruption in world football is gradually being unravelled.

Only gradually, for there is a long way to go, and it remains to be seen what happens now with the entrenched bureaucracies of Latin America which for so long sustained Blatter and his Brazilian predecessor Joao Havelange.

The eight-year bans on Blatter and Platini are being appealed. Both men continue to argue that they have done nothing wrong.