(01 Jun 2014, 5:02 pm)AdamY wrote Another alternative would be for each respective FA to withdraw from FIFA and form a new international body if everyone is upset with Blatter and the way he governs. Or to boycott the Qatar World Cup.
The problem with legal challenges when dealing with transnational organisations is deciding where such action should be taken. Different countries have different laws and local interpretation of those laws might prove extremely problematic. While I accept that each individual FA commits to some sort of binding contract, FIFA could feasibly turn around and say 'our competiton; our rules' and change any terms and conditions as they see fit. Plus, what would be the outcome of such a lawsuit? Renumeration? Reclocation? International arrest warrants for corrupt FIFA officials? The dismissal of Blatter? The dissolution of FIFA? What exactly would be achieved?
I was not not suggesting a complete dissolution of FIFA, but your right what would that achieve, more than likely nothing.
I was suggesting the current FIFA board should stand down, elect a new board with the intention of re-writing the rulebook...
As for legal action, I don't know what the outcome would be, I only heard it once in an interview a while back, I think it was said action could be taken as it is a legal contract and FIFA would breaking it, but as I have said before, they more than likely don't tick all the criteria FIFA has in place and should not have got in the first place for that
I am not sure if a boycott would work, there will be 32 teams from anywhere quite happily going to Qatar, in my opinion, a mass boycott would only be effective if the world's top teams walked...If, let's say, England, Germany, Spain, Italy, Holland, Brazil, Argentina boycotted Qatar, then that might make FIFA sit up and take notice as those 6 teams are probably who most want to see and the TV deal would no doubt be affected by it as those 6 also gets the highest viewers.
There is also the issue of the Qatari summer, temperature being in mid-40's at times and the whole argument that it should be moved to Winter, but that presents a problem as well