ICC bunks off a Greek lesson

The ICC might like to take a leaf out of FIFA’s book – and that’s not something we ever thought would be written here. The endless protestations about not being able to get involved in domestic issues which the ICC wield like an invisibility cloak whenever anyone mentions Zimbabwe have been put into context by FIFA’s suspension of Greece because of excessive government control in the sport.

The Daily Telegraph reported that FIFA acted because the Greek government had exerted levels of interference “not in line with the principles of the FIFA statutes regarding the independence of member associations and the independence of the decision-making process of the football-governing body in each country."

Compared with the shenanigans surrounding the politiciasation of the Zimbabwe board, the Greeks are pussycats. The difference is that those who run the global game are not prepared to sit and look in the other direction.