FIFA Bureaucrats Arrested, to be extradited to US

Before that he wasn't our enemy but since most definitely.

Yup there's probably always been corruption but in this instance there is nothing to say it had happened, no one turned round and said sorry but I've promised someone else my vote or so and so offered more. It was a total fabrication by the British press but you make it sound like they'd already decided to sell their vote.

As I said, every German I spoke to said we'd shot ourselves in the foot ... God they must be so dumb!

 

UEFA should run a rival competition around the same time THE FIFA WORLD CUP, perhaps it could be called THE UEFA GLOBAL INVITATION CUP, or whatever?

The point is that there appears to be at least 70 countries who are against Blatter and his cronies, and I bet that the vast majority, if not all of those countries make up the bulk of the top 100 seeds in world football.

Therefore if they were all to boycott the existing FIFA WORLD CUP and sign up for the new UEFA competition instead, which competition would the big sponsors and TV companies want to be involved in?

An invitation to take part in the new UEFA COMPETITION should be sent to all FIFA nations, not just the known anti Blatter voters, and I bet a lot would soon desert Blatter and his cronies and come over to the new competition; it has to be done!!!

LETS DO IT!!!

 

Well, if your source was the German man on the street, then who am I to argue. I mean, the investigators of Panorama, the Murdoch press, the FBI, the Swiss police etc. all know nothing compared to a german with an opinion.

 

I'm with you! Let's do it!

You get the ball rolling and I'll jump on board once you have got France, Spain, Germany and Italy all signed up.

 

I just sprayed Coke all over my monitor. Damn you, Moog. :]]

 

That's entirely not my point.

All I am saying is that we had a good chance before but zero chance afterwards. There is not one shred of evidence suggesting our rivals for the competition were bribing anyone.

 

Well, what are you doing up North? You should be leading the Swiss investigation into the bribery scandal surrounding the 2018 and 2022 bids, telling them not to waste their time, because GF knows best!

 

What 'little federations' vote for World Cup hosts? Maybe you mean members of the FIFA executive committee.

 

As always!

 

You are welcome to pick holes ZZ but you'll have to do better than that. Without evidence you have no case while Blatter's reaction is well documented.

 

thanks for noticing

 

Sometimes you do yourself a disservice. I don't really give a ****e what the Germans think, male or female. The eternal pragmatists. The point is, was the ST story true or not? These week's developments shout yes, yes, yes. The reasons the Qatari's won their bid is because they chucked a load of big 'bungs' in the right directions. Towards third world delegates who just don't know any better.

So a country ruled by a few guys wearing bedsheets (which they'd obviously trip over immediately should they ever try to play a game of football) who happen to be sitting on a bunch of 'black gold' that they own because they're a bunch of medieval despots and in a country in the middle of a desert where hardly anybody lives and it's 100ºF in the shade at the normal time the tournament is played so the whole thing has to get shifted to the equinoctial opposite and played in the middle of the night so no players die of heat exhaustion and consequentially f.cks up the entire world's football programme although apparently it's OK if any number of construction workers die simply because they're Nepali and Buddhist and can roast or fall off a high-rise bit because they haven't been given a safety harness to the extent that 64 have died already in the construction of the stadia for every game that would have been played in that World Cup (yep folks - 64 for EVERY GAME) (that won't now be played) or more than there would be players in the whole bloody tournament (that's right folks - more men would have died in the construction of the stadia in that World Cup than would actually have played in it) ( but hey - they're only Nepali Buddhists).

But for you, it's all down to an irresponsible Sunday Times article?

F.ck off mate and take your disengenuous Liberal Democratism with your policies of try and appease anybody, including Blatter, with you as this nation instructed you to do three weeks ago.

 

UEFA: ""I am proud that Uefa has defended and supported a movement for change at Fifa,"

Fighting talk there :dismay:

 

I hadn't...

 

'collectively' or do you think their opinion doesn't count?

 

Their opinion does count. But the mounting evidence says it's compromised. Your evidence is compromised too. Why that should be beats me.

 

There are general areas of the world where political corruption is known to be more widespread then in the developed West.

Oddly enough, those areas plumped for Blatter.

Read into that what you want.

 

The FBI have Fifa data dating back 26 years, if our bid was compromised it will show ... in the meantime go back to to your beloved Sunday times.

 

Never read the rag in my life. But you can go back to being some sort of wishy-washy apologist any time you like.

 

A dislike to #187. Interesting. You never know whether it's intentional or simply a faux pas. So j dog. Wadda you say?

 

Apologist for who? I'm blaming the ST for costing us any chance we had of that World Cup regardless of whether some Fifa members are corrupt or not. I'm not defending Fifa or Blatter nor apologising for them but I will say they won't go down easily, especially Blatter, he's more slippery than Billy the fish.

I'm also worried that our FA are on the verge of making total ****s of themselves but I guess they're used to it.

 

If UEFA walk then FIFA crashes and burns otherwise Blatter isn't going anywhere anytime soon

 

So let's all keep quiet until we win a World Cup eh? As opposed to simply telling the truth as and when we find it. Apologist was the wrong word. Appeaser would have been better. But what I do know is that you're following in a fine tradition of talking a whole lot and getting precisely nowhere on this side of the pond. And, whoever finally brings Blatter and 'FIFA as we know it' down, it sure as hell ain't gonna be you!

 

It won't be us or Uefa either IMO. ... if anyone does it will be the yanks and amazingly Concaf will step into their shoes but that's just my own personal opinion of how Good Ol' America operates. You don't have to agree.

 

No one seems to have picked up Blatter's remarks as shown on the BBC's Sports day page:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/32884375

18:36
After not talking for a bit, Sepp Blatter is talking again:

What a c***, not an ounce of shame or humility

 

The man is an odious, senile old windbag. **** him, and his supporters.

 

Which is most of FIFA sadly.

 

Sadly I agree with that entirely. The FA have as much clout and balls as Larry the Lamb, UEFA too don't have the guts to pull out. I got the feeling Platini believed he was immensely brave and proud he 'dared' tell Blatter he had to step down but that's as far as he is going to go. Spain has always supported Blatter anyway so they won't follow suit. Germany has always seemed to be pretty ambivalent (I get the feeling they are as much anti England as they may be anti FIFA). I don't think there would be too much support from within UEFA to leave FIFA. Whatever pull is being held over them it seems the international game is being run by yes-men without any courage of conviction.

Unless Blatter himself is arrested I can't foresee much changing.

 

I think a fair few of them will have convictions soon

 

Forget to mention, Richard Quest on CNN referred to him (genuinely inadvertently I think) as Splatter!

 

@post 187.....Ahem.. Kelso :dismay:

 

Ben Rumsby, Daily Telegraph reporter, has Tweeted:

"If Platini couldn't even convince France not to vote for Blatter then I think we can forget about a widespread Uefa World Cup boycott."

:dismay:

 

I agree with that, don't hold much hope of any kind of sporting body or sponsor boycott, but hopeful as inquiry progresses things will come out and snowball and pressure start to mount, to such an extent the scumbag will have to go as his position would become impossible..won't hold my breath as he will cling on until every one of his nails has been prised off the role, but in theory possible...

 

UEFA leave FIFA?

This photo taken straight after Blatter's reelection probably answers that question.