It never rains but it pours, as the bright future of football is called into question with the ongoing FIFA investigations.

The President of the Argentinian Football Association and FIFA Senior vice-president, Julio Grondona has been called to task by footballing legend, Diego Maradona.

Grondona, who fired Maradona as team coach following the 2010 World Cup, now faces legal action from the former World Cup wonder. Julio Grondona has been accused of corruption as Maradona’s team of lawyers prepare to launch a legal battle for “slander, defamation and discrimation”.

The quarrel follows Maradona’s allegations that the Argentina team were offered stimulants and that Grondona had doping controls removed. Indeed, back in 1994, Maradona failed a drugs test and Grondona has hit back via veiled references to his former habit. Maradona has had enough and vowed that the row “will continue through the Courts”.

Maradona’s lawyer Dr. Alejandro Sánchez Kalbermatten told radio station FM Identidad: "We will go strong against Grondona. We have evidence that means as the case goes on and he could go to jail. "We will focus on everything that he has said about Maradona. He has wronged him, slandered him and discriminated him. Grondona has a partnership with lots of fraudulent economic and personal interests between himself and his entourage of corrupt employees.”

"We have the accounts where they have deposited the amounts used. It's all proven."

This legal battle has the potential to be significant, not to mention interesting in view of the current events featuring FIFA – watch this space!

- Annemarie