Is it fitting that the FIFA World Cup should begin with a match won thanks to corrupt acts by officials leading to a sense of injustice?

cor•rupt (kə-rŭptˈ) adj. Containing errors or alterations

It would be good to know what The Secret Footballer thinks on the matter. In his most recent article he talks of how he had wanted to be a goalkeeper initially. Who knows, he may well have made a better fist of things than Stipe Pletikosa managed tonight.

He also talks about FIFA’s inherent corruption in the article. Below is an extract:

Everybody knows that Fifa is a dodgy organisation. It always has been and always will be.

There are shell companies all over the place, payments made left, right and centre and an unlikeable man in president Sepp Blatter at the centre of it all.