A hero of the Fifa corruption exposé – step forward the British press | Simon Jenkins

Journalist Andrew Jennings and the Sunday Times have been relentless in their pursuit of the institutional corruption at Fifa. Now it’s up to the FA to act

This week’s Fifa exposé is widely credited to the FBI and the tough US attorney general, Loretta Lynch. That they have brought about this crunch is welcome. It is also humiliating for the Swiss police, who know full well what such global agencies get up to on their turf, and for Britain’s Scotland Yard.

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