Was FAM’s suspension of Noor Azman a scapegoat move?
They came to explain — and made it scapegoat time.
At Wisma FAM yesterday, the country’s football leaders faced the press to outline an appeal against Fifa’s sanctions.
They left with a suspension, a promise of an inquiry, and a room full of harder questions.
Deputy president S Sivasundaram began with a chronology of events. Only after he finished did he reveal that general secretary Noor Azman Rahman had been suspended.
He said it was with immediate effect and that an independent committee would be formed.
No names. No terms of reference. No timetable.
The decision to suspend Noor Azman may have been meant to show decisiveness. Yet it risks coming across as scapegoating.
Suspension can be legitimate. It can shield an inquiry from interference.
It can also be the easiest theatre of accountability — remove one man, keep the system intact.
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