FIFA's case against some 15 Caribbean countries began yesterday in the whole bin Hammam/Warner bribery for votes. Caribbean Football Union VP Klass has already been banned for 26mo and slapped on the wrist and been told he was naughty. And by naughty, I mean fined $5000, but when you receive nearly $40,000 in bribes that you never account for, what is $5000?

Well, how can it be he got caught when he already "resigned" from his position with FIFA you ask? Simple, when he denied everything and then somehow coerced two of his employees that were present and implicated by association, he thought he was in the clear and everyone in the public wondered how he could ever be possibly proven wrong if FIFA has no jurisdiction over someone no longer in FIFA.

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Photo taken by the Bahamas FA who claimed they received a brown envelope with $40 Thousand in 4 stacks of $100 bills.

Given the uproar around the recent happenings at FIFA, you'd think that something new and horrific had happened, but corruption has been at the core of our governing body for years. It's just that now we're reaping the fruit of our ignorance and, as a footballing family, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

Maybe that crazy old dude was right about the apocalypse. Look:Spurs make it to the CL Semis,Barca defeats Man U handidly in the CL Finals,bin Hammam drops out of the FIFA Presidency election,and then this...Jack Warner provisionally suspended from FIFA.What?!And one of the best parts? A Blatter says that Warner knew about the bribes and Warner says its a conspiracy by America.

Wow...I'm at a loss for words after reading this. It's like getting your biggest Christmas wish and being fired all in the same day.The great writers over at bigsoccer have made it known that Warner and Bin Hammam are both (as well as several others) now charged with outright bribery of other FIFA officials to secure the CONCACAF votes for the June 1st FIFA President election.

By Soraya Soemadiredja, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Part One of Three Parts in AFR's FIFA Elections coverage.

All over the world, on every continent, it's election fever. You just have to turn on any news channel, open any website or read the paper to know that.

So you are hearing that Sepp is corrupt. Fine. You also hear that bin Hammam, the Qatari who is running against Sepp for the FIFA presidency, is corrupt. Try doing a search on bin Hammam and it's tough to pin anything to the guy directly... Because of this, we bring you:Now, only some of it can be directly linked to bin Hammam, but as the Asian Fed president, and being from Qatar, you have to
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That's what FIFA members are going to be asked to choose between on June 1. Sepp Blatter or Mohammad bin Hammam. And surprisingly, it's not an easy decision.Here's the deal. Everyone knows Sepp is corrupt. And for his part bin Hammam has stated that his corruption will only last two terms... I mean, his presidency, will only last two terms.