Joyous reaction to FIFA arrests

The internet is approaching meltdown after the news that Swiss authorities made

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FIFA is in crisis and most football fans are utterly delighted to hear it.

This is extraordinary! FIFA is imploding. The best thing that could possibly happen to the beautiful game. https://t.co/l5Hiwp0WxZ

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) May 27, 2015

There can't be a more corrupt, deplorable organisation on earth than FIFA. The house of cards is falling. Time for change!

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) May 27, 2015

FIFA held a press conference suggesting they are the damaged party - football fans are unimpressed.

De Gregorio #fifa: "Fifa is the damaged party." Nonsense. Football is the damaged party. Integrity is the damaged party. Re-vote needed.

— Henry Winter (@henrywinter) May 27, 2015

Suppose #FIFA held a world cup and nobody came? Would the greasy corrupt slugs have to hand back their bungs? #EnglandWithdrawNow

— Danny Baker (@prodnose) May 27, 2015

The basic consensus is that it couldn't be happening to a better organisation.

The Emperor of Corruption:@SeppBlatter #FIFA

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 27, 2015

And of course, there have been lots of jokes.

FIFA officials arrested this morning. One thing I can't quite get to grips with... pic.twitter.com/v5MPrS9ahH

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) May 27, 2015

Given how crooked FIFA are, it's a genuine mystery that Ireland has never got to host one of its so-called World Cups.

— Ross O'Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) May 27, 2015

#FIFA is asked about Blatter.
'He's quite relaxed abut it.'
Course he f*cking is, sat at home smoking cigars, stroking his cat, probably.

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) May 27, 2015

This is worth showing again right now. John Oliver’s fantastic TV takedown of FIFA, filmed before the 2014 World Cup, is the best possible explanation of why the organisation that runs the world’s most popular sport is almost universally loathed.

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