No balls

Cold feet, Fifa? For all your blathering and posturing – “you cannot do this, you cannot do that” – the world's governing football body now risk being exposed for their dithering when it comes to deciding what’s best for the football world.

Fifa, having met with representatives from the Premier League and the Football Association to determine the transfer fate of Argentine international Carlos Tevez, now says they are considering whether or not to get involved at all in the dispute.

Their excuse? “We may not have the authority to settle the matter.”

Common!! If you are the world football body that’s so keen to tell football federations and football clubs that you cannot do this and you cannot do that because this and that are against the rules, what’s to stop you from calling the shots here and decide on a dispute between clubs??

Don’t fight shy of doing your duty. When it comes to the crunch, where’s your authority? Thrown out the window together with the bath water? Don’t tell me that Fifa’s rule on third-party ownerships of players are less strict than the Premier League’s. I’m not impressed. It’s just a blustering excuse to side-step the sensitive issue.

Potentially, Fifa has no balls, I tell you.