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Well, would you look at that?  Football named and shamed in the mainstream press once again.  Steven Lowy’s first week in charge and mysteriously a massive confidentiality breach occurs.  Now while the FFA may not have been responsible for that breach they are the ones who have assured confidentiality in the breach notices:

We'll ignore the obvious double standards applied here as a twice convicted drunk driver gets congratulated by the NSW Police Association or the fact that more AFL players have had assault charges laid against them than A-League supporters have been banned during the same period or even that a good day at the Boxing Day test has more people thrown out of the MCG. 

The buck stops with the FFA and their security companies.  The information is their information, they are responsible for it's security.

What does raise a few questions though is that this creates a Social media storm and calls for boycotts while the Lowy family and their acolytes running the A-League into the ground and treating the FFA as their own personal fiefdom is cheered as a resounding success.  If our Prime Minister (whoever it is today) had over seen disasters like the current FFA management have in the last 3 months there would have been a spill long ago but our worship of the Lowy family money sees a blind eye turned.

Honorable mention here to the NSW Police Association who have again remained classy:

Based on my experience a fair number of the people they represent probably play the sport.  I wonder how they feel seeing the people responsible for representing them behaving like this?  Should we be surprised though?  Is there a body in Australia more corrupt than the NSW Police?  It’s hardly surprising the Association behaves like this when the body they represent lurch from one commission of inquiry to the next.

Corruption loops us back to the FFA again as well.  Last week Transparency International released a report looking at the world’s football associations and the level of openness and appropriate transparency they have and conspicuously absent from the 14 FA’s named as meeting a basic standard was the Football Federation of Australia even thought the report was prefaced with this disclaimer:

We set the bar for transparency at a very low level. Even FAs with a top score still need to reveal much more to the public about their organisation and how they spend the cash that pours in from FIFA headquarters and their own revenue generating activities.

So the FFA failed to meet an incredibly low bar on openness and honesty. Makes you wonder how high the bar was set for this “There was a very diligent process that took place which is at the highest order of corporate governance"

It is interesting to note that if you break the Telepgraph metrics down that the FFA are seeking to ban the one club that has yet to ban any individuals...