"You can convict and get all the bad guys, but unless you put someone in there to clean up the local, the problem will continue," Stephen J. Riegel, a prosecutor in the case, said.

"This is a time when he should do what he usually does around campaign time and election time: Change his vote and vote to put some fairness back into campaigns and vote to clean up campaigns."

"Some of the things that you could put in place to clean up the agency's financial situation internally as well the image it would project externally were relatively easy things to accomplish," he said.

Fifa's decision on hosting the 2018 World Cup, amid claims and counter-claims of corruption, puts Russia on the spot once and for all to clean up its reputation.

Such issues are now top of the political agenda, and, as 1992 looms, our outraged European partners are putting on pressure for Britain to clean up its environmental act.