Elan i've said many times they didn't have to go to court and embarass JW/TTFF with this,just the same way you all are saying Stern should have dealt with NE,i don't mind if it was Football but money!
ok, but
(1) NOT going to court is not a concrete, specific example of how to handle a situation.
(2) If they did not go to court how else would (para-quoting you) a 'corrupt thief' be convinced to keep his word? Throw them a $5000?
(3) JW/TTFF was recieving corporate and government sponsorship money with apparently no effort or desire to account for it. The three top executives of the TTFF were each hauled before FIFA to face corruption charges. I think that they absolutely had to be embarrassed.
(4) Are you really comparing a miscommunication and spat between a player and club to the dissapearence of hundreds of million of dollars?
But as you said, you have already explained yourself so no need to rehash