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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Jun 10, 2014 17:51:44 GMT
Funny how as soon as the real power brokers i.e. the sponsors start voicing concerns, UEFA crawl out of the woodwork and appear to grow a pair. Fifa, Uefa, Blatter etc etc are vile scumbags who only know one thing - MONEY. Exactly the point I was making mate.
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Post by underdog on Jun 10, 2014 20:41:07 GMT
How much longer is the football world going to put up with this corrupt cunt? I'm appalled that even after all the things he's been involved with that he's still in office. Someone fire him from a cannon ffs.
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Post by Squeekster on Jun 10, 2014 20:47:02 GMT
And he says he wants another term, the sooner fifa are totally over hauled and replaced with people who can be scrutinized at any given moment the better.
Time for a massive change.
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Post by swampySCFC on Jun 10, 2014 20:49:29 GMT
The bent bastard does tend to cast a shadow over the game in the eyes of any normal fan. he's made/making a great living off the backs of the football world.
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Post by sportsman on Jun 10, 2014 20:54:15 GMT
Days must be numbered now. Mounting pressure from around the world building for him to step down. Take everyone with you, you fat fuck.
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Post by salopstick on Jun 10, 2014 20:56:02 GMT
I can't see platini being much better
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Post by Squeekster on Jun 10, 2014 20:58:45 GMT
I can't see platini being much better Equally as bad and corrupt mate!
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 10, 2014 21:03:05 GMT
This wouldn't be the time to oust Blatter. Better.the devil you k.ow and allbthat. IMHO Champagne is a Blatter stooge to split the Platini vote.
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Post by Billybigbollox on Jun 10, 2014 21:08:25 GMT
I can't see platini being much better Nah cunts the lot of 'em. Feeding from the trough like the fucking pigs they are.
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Post by discokaraoke on Jun 10, 2014 21:10:54 GMT
Got to be the most hated guy in football, the man is bent! England FA should do all they can to claim back all the rites of our game!
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 10, 2014 21:11:45 GMT
Platini would be lots worse. Twas he who has embraced the Qatar infiltration into aEuropean nogger. His son works for them.
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Post by Squeekster on Jun 10, 2014 21:15:12 GMT
Platini is the only one who admitted voting for Qatar and low and behold his son works for a Qatari company!
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 10, 2014 22:37:18 GMT
Platini is the only one who admitted voting for Qatar and low and behold his son works for a Qatari company! Indeed!
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 11, 2014 12:44:12 GMT
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Post by 2004 on Jun 11, 2014 13:04:09 GMT
I can't see platini being much better I agree he is worse!
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 11, 2014 13:13:33 GMT
Platini is the big Qatar man. Usurping Blatter with Platini would be catatrophic.
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Post by kristoff on Jun 11, 2014 13:41:25 GMT
Id like to see quite a few kicked out to be fair
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2014 13:42:49 GMT
Got to be the most hated guy in football, the man is bent! England FA should do all they can to claim back all the rites of our game! homophobe
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Post by interestedobserver on Jun 13, 2014 12:38:51 GMT
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Post by stokeramblers on Jun 13, 2014 12:44:02 GMT
That'll smart a bit. Being stripped of the WC and it going to the Great Infidel Devil of the West... Be a good World Cup to go to.
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Post by interestedobserver on Jun 13, 2014 14:00:06 GMT
That'll smart a bit. Being stripped of the WC and it going to the Great Infidel Devil of the West... Be a good World Cup to go to. It's a bit unfair to Canada and Mexico, however. North America got a bit screwed by FIFA ending the rotation system and so if Qatar does lose it, I think 2022 or 2026 would have to come to North America. The US, of course, is the best choice for getting one up and going quickly (you could probably pull one off with as little as 18 months notice). So it is logical That said, why not hold a match at the Azteca and one or two in Canada? Just throw the entire automatic qualification thing out the window for 2022, up the CONCACAF berths from 3.5 to 4 and let the chips fall where they may in terms of qualifying. Put most of the venues in the US and, as stated above use Azteca and one or two venues in Canada. That should satisfy everybody in the CONCACAF region for a few decades.
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Post by Olgrligm on Jun 13, 2014 20:16:52 GMT
An interesting little piece that appeared in last week's Private Eye that I don't think has been seen on here:
Football Association boss Greg Dyke will experience his first FIFA congress in Sao Paulo on 10 June, choreographed by President Sepp Blatter in the Pyongyang style.
When not picking up their hefty per diems in cash, delegates from 209 national associations will be urged to rubber stamp Blatter's claim that his corruption-soaked organisation "is now setting the highest standards for governance in world sport". The corruption disclosures that wrecked FIFA's credibility exploded in 2010 when Sunday Times Insight and BBC Panorama revealed that the 23-man FIFA executive was home to a bunch of venal bribe-seekers, seemingly confirmed when they awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Blatter hurriedly hired former New York US attorney Michael Garcia to investigate. Garcia will perhaps, some time, deliver a report into whether the crooks at FIFA trousered massive bribes to award the tournament to the Gulf billionaires. But why did Blatter choose Garcia as his well-rewarded "independent" investigator? Asked about Garcia's record as a Wall Street crime-buster and his closeness to the Bush White House, Columbia University law professor Scott Horton commented: "The one thing that could be predicted with utter confidence on the basis of Garcia's professional career is that he would zealously protect whoever appointed him and paid his bills. He might actually go after corrupt figures, but only to the extent it served the agenda of the person who appointed him."
And so it has turned out. One of Garcia's tasks has been to investigate allegations that Blatter handled a CHF1m bribe (£400,000 at the time) from a marketing company intended for the dodgy former FIFA president Joao Havelange. Blatter had to admit handling the money but said he had no idea it was a bribe. That's what we are told Blatter said, because neither transcript nor electronic recording of Garcia's no doubt rigorous interrogation of his paymaster will be made available.
Before hiring Garcia the serpentine Blatter rewrote FIFA's laughable "ethics code" to ensure that evidence collected in FIFA investigations cannot be revealed. Eat your heart out, Kim Jong-un. Even the date and place of this performance are suppressed.
These are all questions that Greg Dyke could ask in Sao Paulo. Nobody in world football wants to go to sweltering, booze-free Qatar, stepping over the corpses of Nepalese slave labourers. It's a tough one for slippery Sepp, because if Qatar is cancelled attention will turn to how the oligarches acquired the 2018 World Cup for Russia. The FIFA lowlifes who "looked after" Qatar likely did the same for Russia. Post-Crimea, an open revote could give it to England, a strong contender in the 2010 vote. Go Greg, go!
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Post by EccyStokie on Jun 14, 2014 7:16:46 GMT
The US would be a great choice. With they interest in "soccer" consistently rising, hosting the World Cup in 8 years could see a huge boost in that interest.
If football really took off in the US, how long do you think it would be before they became one of the top 5 international sides?
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Post by mailman44 on Jun 14, 2014 10:41:03 GMT
Would be nice to have a World Cup that is not in a third world country. For all our faults we know how to put on a first class show in state of the art venues. Give England the 2018 World Cup.
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Post by kristoff on Jun 14, 2014 11:24:36 GMT
The US would be a great choice. With they interest in "soccer" consistently rising, hosting the World Cup in 8 years could see a huge boost in that interest. If football really took off in the US, how long do you think it would be before they became one of the top 5 international sides? Give it 15-20 and ill be stunned if the US havent made it to a world cup final (at least). When they focus on a sport, they usually excel. Just look at some of the players they have now compared to the 94 world cup, i really think they are an up and coming team
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Post by Northy on Jun 14, 2014 11:50:06 GMT
for a moment ther I thought you meant us (England) not the US A
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Post by interestedobserver on Jun 14, 2014 12:00:56 GMT
The US would be a great choice. With they interest in "soccer" consistently rising, hosting the World Cup in 8 years could see a huge boost in that interest. If football really took off in the US, how long do you think it would be before they became one of the top 5 international sides? Give it 15-20 and ill be stunned if the US havent made it to a world cup final (at least). When they focus on a sport, they usually excel. Just look at some of the players they have now compared to the 94 world cup, i really think they are an up and coming team It's clear that MLS is making good progress as well. More non-US MLSers in this World Cup than in all previous World Cups combined. Gridiron participation has peaked within the last five years and is now in decline. In twenty years, we could be a legitimate footballing nation.
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Post by interestedobserver on Jun 14, 2014 12:02:06 GMT
for a moment ther I thought you meant us (England) not the US ANo, I meant USA. As in "Us, America" ,
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jun 14, 2014 12:12:44 GMT
The sooner the corrupt cunt Blatter is behind bars the better it will be for football.
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Post by crowey on Jun 14, 2014 15:26:34 GMT
... And take Platini with him
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