The CONCACAF region –descended into chaos last night after its acting president tried to fire whistleblower Chuck Blazer.Lisle Austin, from Barbados, who was only appointed to the role on Monday, told his region’s general secretary in a stinging letter sent on CONCACAF stationery that he was being sacked for ‘gross misconduct’.Then, just hours later, Blazer was reinstated by other members of the region who told Austin that he was not authorised to make that decision.According to CONCACAF rules, the executive committee has jurisdiction over Blazer, general secretary of the federation that represents North and Central America and the Caribbean. Not only has the executive committee taken no action, but a majority of committee members told Lisle Austin he lacked the authority to fire Blazer, according to a statement on the CONCACAF website.“This attempted action was taken without any authority,” the statement said. “Chuck Blazer continues as CONCACAF general secretary and with the full authority of his office.”All this came at the end of a dramatic day in Zurich were the 61st FIFA Congress opened with Sepp Blatter admitting FIFA were in danger, and continued with disgraced former CONCACAF president Jack Warner telling Bermuda Football Association how to vote in today’s presidential election.Warner sent a letter to all the members of the Caribbean Football Union in which he urged them to vote for Blatter and ‘beseeched’ them not to take any action in protest at his suspension.While Warner had plenty to say yesterday, the same cannot be said for the BFA who have refused to comment on any of the events of the past week. Exposed as one of the ‘whistleblowers’ that lifted the lid on Warner, Bermuda president Larry Mussenden has remained tight-lipped on the subject, refusing to make any comment.The BFA have even refused to confirm if they will vote today, or, like their English counterparts, abstain from an election that is said to have lost all credibility.Mussenden, programme developer and co-ordinater Ian Rawlins and executive council member Anthony Frances are all in Zurich for the election, however their only response to repeated requests for answers was via an email to The Royal Gazette yesterday, which read: “We are presently attending the opening ceremonies. At this time we are unable to comment.”That’s if there is an election at all, with the English FA pushing hard to postpone an election they say now lacks ‘all credibility’.Blazer’s ‘sacking’ was the latest twist in a series of events that have shaken FIFA to its core following the American’s accusations that longtime CONCACAF president Jack Warner and his Asian Football Confederation counterpart Mohamed bin –Hammam tried to buy votes for today’s presidential election.According to Blazer, Warner and bin Hammam offered Caribbean football leaders $40,000 each in exchange for their votes.Bin Hammam had been the only challenger to current president Sepp Blatter, who is seeking his fourth, four-year term. Bin Hammam withdrew early Sunday before an ethics committee found there was enough evidence against the Qatari and Warner to suspend them both in advance of a full investigation. If found guilty, they could be expelled from FIFA and banned from all football activity.Austin, who is acting CONCACAF president while Warner is suspended, tried to fire Blazer for “a gross misconduct of duty and of judgment” for his role in the FIFA scandal. In a letter sent to Blazer’s hotel in Zurich, Austin said the American had “grossly insulted and defamed” all of CONCACAF’s Caribbean members by saying each was under investigation for bribery.Austin also said Blazer did not have the authority to hire John P. Collins, a former federal prosecutor who investigated the bribery allegations. Collins represents CONCACAF, and also is a member of FIFA’s legal committee.“It is apparent that you are no longer fit to act as Secretary General of CONCACAF and to represent its members,” Austin wrote.Austin’s move was as much of a surprise as Warner’s before it, especially as just four days earlier the former president had called on FIFA members to ‘stop Blatter’ as he threatened to implicate the president in the on-going cash for votes scandal.However, Warner appears to have had a change of heart and urged members of the Caribbean Football Union to back Blatter at the election, in which he is now running unopposed.“At our last meeting we agreed as a Union to support the incumbent Joseph Sepp Blatter in his quest to regain the Presidency,” Warner wrote in a letter to CFU members, yesterday. “I wish to assure you nothing has changed our mandate was set then and despite it all we must fulfil it.”Warner’s position is a surprising one and also raised questions about whether, in writing the letter and giving advice to members, the Trinidadian has breached the suspension which bars him from ‘football activities’ at FIFA, international and national level.Chuck Blazer, the CONCACAF general secretary, said yesterday that he had already reported Warner for other, unspecified, breaches by Warner of his suspension. “That’s a violation of his suspension from all football activities,” Blazer said of the letter.He later told reporters in Zurich that “we have clear evidence of a violation of his suspension and we have reported that to the FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke.”Although no protest had been announced or even hinted at by any CONCACAF member associations Warner urged CFU members to attend the Zurich congress.“I, Jack Warner, a servant and believer in the principles of this beautiful game do humbly beseech you, my brothers and sisters from the Caribbean Football Union to desist from initiating any protest action at tomorrow’s FIFA Congress.“My family, our foundation has been rocked and our strength is being tested but I urge you for the good of the game to attend tomorrow’s Congress and fulfill your duties in representing the Caribbean,” wrote Warner.“I know many of you are hurting and it is only human nature that you would want to demonstrate your anger but despite all we must not fuel a fire set by others to incinerate all that we strive for.“Daily we are subjected to attacks of division.“Do not lose faith, for in life good will always prevail; there is no better education than adversity and when this is over we will rise from the ashes and like the phoenix of legend, we will soar once more.“We are being chastised for our belief in fair play and freedom of speech but let not your heart be daunted.“We are Caribbean people, our history is tattooed with stories of struggle, but we have always risen,” he wrote.Bin Hammam and Warner are alleged to have offered up to $1million in cash bribes to Caribbean football –officials for their votes in this week’s presidential election.The BFA’s second-vice president Gregory Grimes and general secretary David Sabir attended the CFU –special summit in Trinidad earlier this month where it’s alleged the cash offerings were made.In The Sunday Times it was reported that Bermuda was one of the delegates to have refused the cash.“Not everyone had taken the money. Members from at least five football –associations, the Bahamas, Bermuda and Cayman Islands, turned it down,” read the article.