One way of looking at this is that it suits just about every one of the main players involved for FIFA to step in and take action with regard to the flaunting of their rules on using the civil courts ; sfa off the hook, spl off the hook, green off the hook - doesnt need to produce a " warchest ", duff + phelps off the hook, can claim it was all going according to plan until fifa stepped in and sanctions taken for other issues such as double contracts will somehow get lost in the spin etc, etc
