Wang Xiaoping, director of the Discipline Committee of the Football Association, and Huang Song, director of the competition department, who were recently investigated, are said to be extremely close to Fu Xiang, secretary general of the Wuhan Football Association, who fell earlier. If this is the case, it is not difficult to understand the strange thing that players also fouled the "Football Association Calligrapher" last season. At the same time, Li Tie's investigation is also directly related to the Wuhan Yangtze River Club. It can be seen that Wuhan's football practitioners, including football associations, clubs, players, and relevant aspects of society, have become direct stakeholders in this football anti-corruption case, and if Wuhan is still responsible for the investigation of the case, it is obviously a violation of the principle of avoidance and it is difficult to say fair.
Similarly, to date, 5 people from the president to the middle-level cadres of the Football Association have officially announced that they have been officially arrested. These people are inextricably linked with the General Administration, and the case will inevitably involve the personnel and even the leadership of the General Bureau, and Du Bureau, who is now in charge of the work of the Football Association, is himself the deputy director of the General Administration. Therefore, if the discipline inspection team of the General Administration still directly handles the case, and the subordinates still rely on the reasonable, what if the target of investigation becomes the same level? Moreover, as a direct superior with a complicated relationship with the Football Association, it is reasonable to avoid handling the case for the sake of fairness.
In addition, this football anti-corruption is not limited to the scope of the General Administration, nor is it limited to the scope of Wuhan, but has become a "big case in the sky" covering multiple places, departments and levels, and its complexity and wide range of people involved are that it is impossible for one department to be able to "thoroughly investigate".
To sum up, the anti-corruption of football has evolved to today's situation, which should be upgraded or handled in a different place, or directly responsible by a higher-level case-handling agency, or handed over to a place completely isolated from the case, otherwise "thorough investigation" may become an empty phrase. Of course, if it were not for the "investigation of whoever is involved" as stated in the online commentary of the central media on the evening of February 14 and March 25, it would be another matter.
Speaking of which, I can't help but think of some things about the last football anti-corruption incident. Who was in charge of the case at that time? Where was the "fake gambling black" at that time most serious? Why are specific local police designated to handle cases? Why selective disclosure of the facts of the case? What is the purpose of this? Who to protect in the end? If we think about it again, we may have clearer answers to these questions. The reason why football corruption has intensified now has no bottom line, it can be said that the root cause planted by the last anti-corruption "embracing the pipa and half covering the face"! Recently, it has been rumored that this football anti-corruption campaign will be investigated for 10 years, so can the "xxx" that was strictly protected back then reveal the "true face of Lushan"?
It has been nearly a month and a half since the official announcement of the fall of the president of the Football Association Chen Jiayuan on February 14, and his "people behind it" are still unharmed, which cannot but make the majority of fans who love football and the Chinese people who pay attention to football anti-corruption a little frustrated: Is it possible to take the "road back" again? Is "finding out to the end" just talking?
But by all means...