Triesman's revelations are explosive but there is no smoking gun

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Lord Triesman's testimony in Parliament may not prove to be quite the defining moment for FIFA that the media coverage suggests. Triesman's statements have been seen as FIFA's equivalent of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Salt Lake City moment. That ended with the IOC cleaning up its act and expelling 10 members.

My worry is that the Triesman intervention could be great theatre but not lead to any real change.

I say this based on having witnessed an even more explosive drama at the IOC's headquarters in Lausanne back in December 1998. Then a Swiss lawyer who was in his 80s and one of the most senior IOC members, sensationally alleged that the entire Olympic Movement was corrupt.