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ABC news reporting that Blatter being investigated by FBI & US prosecutors http://t.co/VmImLZaUjL
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Hopefully both of these corrupt organizations will be no more very soon.
I may die laughing.
@martynziegler: Qatar FA chief: “We would urge Mr Dyke to... concentrate on delivering his promise to build an England team capable of winning the 2022 WC."
@tom_ComRes: With all the breaking news our first post election VI poll for @DailyMailUK is being postponed for a day. All adds to the palpable suspense!
*innocent face*
As long as they ban the vuvuzela...
- Blatter wouldn't have gone without serious pressure. Either he's in the firing line directly or he knew far too much about others that are. Who knew what? And who will sing?
- Who takes over and on what mandate?
- Will the Associations that backed Blatter accept the need for reform or will it have to be forced by the rest using financial pressure?
- What impact on the 2018 and 2022 World Cups? Were there irregularities in the bidding and how serious? Will they have to be re-run? Will losers sue? In theory, England ought to be a contender for 2018 if it is re-awarded; in practice, I suspect the FA has too many enemies and that another big European country which could stage the Cup at short notice would get it.
If Platini is in the betting to be new head of FIFA then lay him, he is as bent as the rest. He voted for Qatar, presumably under pressure from the French government as Qatar have major investment there, very soon after his son was made CEO of a big Qatari sportswear company.
Coincidence? Maybe the Feds will find out, but I very much doubt he would be allowed to head up FIFA
America couldn't - it might prejudice their criminal investigations. "They only did this to take the World Cup" etc nonsense.
And since Germany will get to win it, it's only fair that leaves us to host it.
Perhaps, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should bid together.
They could have the slogan "Better Together"
I don't think S Africa stands a chance. It was a thoroughly unenjoyable WC with all the noise and has also hosted too recently (it wouldn't even have been able to bid for 2018 had they wanted to, on the rotation principle). Besides, there are questions about how they won.
Realistically, if 2018 is taken from Russia, it'll be another European country, partly because it's Europe's 'turn' but more because that's where the countries which have the infrastructure to do it at short notice are.
"His lawyer has probably received some interesting calls."
It was inevitable. Maybe this will get the point across to those at the top of organisations. The whole point of being a leader, the whole reason you get the money and the glory and the fancy cars and the rest of it is because THE BUCK STOPS WITH YOU. You are responsible and saying that you didn't know and you can't be expected to monitor everyone and so on and so forth with every feeble excuse known to man just doesn't cut it.
It's painful and pathetic how this basic, old-fashioned lesson has to be relearnt every few years or so.
And @Charles: the stupid Swiss bank you mentioned was Wegelin Bank.
The number of training sites has been reduced to 37 from 48, and the seating capacity of two out of 12 total stadiums selected to host the matches has been slashed by some 22 percent.
MOSCOW — The Russian government has cut its budget for the 2018 World Cup by more than US$70 million. When Russia won the bid to host the event, its economy was booming. But under the pressure of Western sanctions and low oil prices, the economy has suffered over the past year and concerns are high about the financial burden of the World Cup
http://buenosairesherald.com/article/190167/russia-slashes-world-cup-budget-again
@patrickwintour: Burnham says Labour must learn lessons of Scottish referendum and run its own pro Europe referendum campaign http://t.co/FDmQhy7Wan
An FBI spokesman was quoted (and I'm paraphrasing) that now the struggle to survive is beginning among those indicted or awaiting extradition to the US, the first to flip gets the best deal, and the FBI will probably not need to take FIFA apart step by step.
Qualifying for 2018 is only 2 months away, so removing the Russia cup may be problematic. 2022 may well be on the table, depending on whether Blatter can be a king maker..
The Independent on Sunday can also reveal that a mechanism is available to football's governing body to order a new vote whereby infringements of its code of ethics are cited."
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Wouldn't it be better if Kennedy were still alive?
As for Blatter... He accepted triumphally in English but resigned impenetrably in French.
And can anyone be certain that the people left at Fifa are any more ethical than those who have gone. It takes more than a resignation or two to change the culture and mores of an organisation/
Qatar really seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back with a lot of this stuff, it was just too troublesome in so many different ways to take seriously.
Unless Shy pro-EU Kippers
It is rife with vicious racism and hooliganism, it would be like having the World Cup here in 1978.
As an example of the priorities of FIFA anyone remember when Nicolas Bendtner was fined £80,000 for bearing his boxer shorts displaying the Paddy Power name, yet clubs and associations where the fans have been found guilty of disgusting racism, monkey chants etc, have been fined £5,000.
Obviously they don't care about racism but Paddy Power were not a sponsor so had to be punished, racism they are not too bothered about.
Good night all
Every one who votes ... well most... are dependent on wages I suppose. It does not stop some voting for left wing anti business parties.
The WWC will vote for many reasons, and if anything are less politically homogenous than the Southern golf and Daily Mail set, but the ones who still vote Labour rather than Ukip or Conservative are surely sympathetic to the Blair view of the world, no?
Edit: except that Russia wouldn't qualify (not needing to, as things stand), but presumably they would boycott the replacement in protest anyway. Complication could arise if the eventual host failed to qualify.
Campbell said: “Mr Salmond’s intervention is ill judged. Today is a day for fond memories and respect. Anything else today is out of order.”
Asked whether Kennedy supported Scotland’s continued membership of the UK, Campbell said: “Of course Charles did. He was a federalist. The important thing to remember is that federalism necessarily involves being part of the UK. You can’t be a federalist and want independence at the same time. Charles was a classic Liberal home ruler within the UK. Federalism necessarily involves being within a whole.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jun/02/menzies-campbell-alex-salmond-charles-kennedy
The feeling in many African countries is that at least we are seeing some money coming our way thanks to Blatter's commitment to spread the game.
How UEFA / Fifa can move forward and try to heal this, while also cutting out the terrible corruption that has been and is occurring e.g the scandal of fake friendlies in Africa.
Unless the FBI and U.S. prosecutors currently investigating him move faster.
True, it might be that it is less corrupt than others. But we were one of the countries pushing for FIFA to be investigated, and people will be looking very hard at us.
There was the strange summary of the Garcia Report that accused England of behaving improperly. Whilst Garcia disowns that summary, there must be something in the report to back up that accusation, or Hans-Joachim Ecker will be in trouble.
In fact, should not the Garcia Report be released in full now?
If sports fans want these events, sports fans should pay for them, not the rest of us.
(/grumpy git mode)
Let's hope that's right. But if not, can we send you the bill?
No?
Meanwhile, the majority of us who have only a minor interest in football, or none at all, will have to suffer so you can get your couple of weeks of disappointment as the home nations get chucked out.
No thanks.
I wonder which Embassy Blatter will end up in!
Why would we want anything to do with it at all?
So it's not like F1 at all.
Ahem.
Or provide a Blatter moment for Gordon Matheson.
https://twitter.com/eamonolenin/status/605865379722698752
I genuinely don't know, though the people involved in that seem to be more 'old money'.
As a matter of interest, how much did the Wembley Stadium redevelopment cost the taxpayer. I know the FA are in it up to the hilt, but weren't reduced-interest loans given out by the government along with grants?
http://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-receives-award-for-governance-and-transparency/244711
And they are publishing stuff for transparency:
http://www.hl.co.uk/news/2015/4/2/ioc-publishes-compensation-policy-seeks-transparency
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/jun/02/steve-bell-on-charles-kennedy-cartoon
"Among the most watched"
Good. Let's give similar amounts of money to BGT.
Instead of telling me to go for a walk (something I'd love to do, but I've got a little something keeping me at home atm), I've got a better idea: why can't everyone who wants to watch football live just fly out to another country that will host it and pay for it (including the bungs).
And the world cup does have an impact (in fact, football does). It's ever-present on the TV and the news.
I can see Russia 2018 going ahead, but Qatar 2022 being re-run, not least because it was never a bid for a Northern Hemisphere winter tournament.