Aurelio Jiménez Callejas, a 74-year-old lawyer from Colombia, has decided that he's had just about enough of these chaps in FIFA, so he's suing them for a billion quid.
A man in Colombia who suffered cardiac problems after watching the game between his national team and Brazil has decided that enough is enough, and that FIFA need to pay for his troubles, and pay big time.
The journalist and lawyer has launched a suit as part of a group called 'Indignados contra la Fifa' (Up in Arms Against FIFA) seeking a billion euro in damages, saying that poor refereeing on July 4th in the World Cup quarter-final left him in hospital, quite literally heartbroken.
He told the BBC World Service that "I felt very bad, I was heartbroken, my cardiac rhythm was altered and my relatives took me to the emergency room at the hospital. I was surrounded by my grandchildren who were crying a lot."
Carlos Velasco Carballo, the Spanish referee in charge of the quarter-final between the two sides, is the man named specifically by the suit, but he has also put together a few other examples of poor refereeing throughout the tournament, sating that "there were many wrongdoings related to referees who...caused big moral damages and distress to Chile, Uruguay, Colombia, England, Mexico and Costa Rica".
James Rodríguez, currently one of Real Madrid's latest crop of galácticos is one of the expert witnesses they hope will testify, along with defender Mario Yepes and goalkeeper David Ospina, amongst others like Pelé and Maradona.
While a billion in damages is a tasty amount of dosh, and about the amount that the non-profit organisation FIFA just so happen to have lying around in their emergency reserve fund (that money is just resting in the account), Jiménez claims that he won't be keeping the cash himself, rather any damages received would go to an organisation which helps to improve the welfare of Colombian children.
