Blatter finally admits Qatar world cup error

[aberdeeneuan]

Walford said:

aberdeeneuan said:

Tip of the iceberg though. There is an article on the Guardian which talks about the potential successors, they are all as bad as each other.

Iceberg in Qatar?

I'm sure if you pay enough money you could have one!

[snowy]

That will put the mockers on Platini's bid to be President of FIFA, seems time now is against FIFA as an organisation, it can only survive with a complete clear out of the top few levels of FIFA management

How they do this, I don't know

[spikeyhead]

Blib said:

They have an ethics committee????

It's the only way

[bad company]

Can't believe Blatter has finally gone.

[Cobnapint]

bad company said:

Can't believe Blatter has finally gone.

He's gone in the same way that rust has when you wire brush, fill, sand and paint a patch on a car's bodywork.

[MiniMan64]

bad company said:

Can't believe Blatter has finally gone.

I believe it when I see it.

I have a feeling that old Sepp won't see this as a barrier to his continued leadership...

[Burwood]

he has gone given his retirement is Feb anyway. What is interesting is hearing(in due course) exactly what those pricks have been up to when they send in the forensic accountants. Im surprised the US havent used RICO on them.

[NailedOn]

Greg_D said:

NailedOn said:

kleptocracy

I consider myself educated, an excellent word, thanks....

Me too!
Nice to see both Blatter and Platini in the guano. Long may they linger there.

My take on all of this is that FIFA appropriated football to themselves. A body that began as administrators somehow became owners.
By giving the vote to every real or imagined country on the planet and making those national representatives de facto clients of FIFA, they took the power away from the footballing nations.

I would really wish to see FIFA disbanded and the footballing nations start over. That would exclude tinpot regimes, cronies and countries too busy flogging dissidents to kick a ball.
All that is required is for the top 3 or 4 footballing nations to withdraw from FIFA and set up a new global footballing body.

[Le Pop]

NailedOn said:

All that is required is for the top 3 or 4 footballing nations to withdraw from FIFA and set up a new global footballing body.

I agree... that's all...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Blib said:

They have an ethics committee????

Who knew? What have they been doing for the last 30 years.

[Chimune]

Just noticed something odd.
BBC R4 don't mention UEFA when discussing this. They only say Platini is 'head of European football'....
They got an interest in protecting uefa ?

[wc98]

NailedOn said:

Me too!
Nice to see both Blatter and Platini in the guano. Long may they linger there.

My take on all of this is that FIFA appropriated football to themselves. A body that began as administrators somehow became owners.
By giving the vote to every real or imagined country on the planet and making those national representatives de facto clients of FIFA, they took the power away from the footballing nations.

I would really wish to see FIFA disbanded and the footballing nations start over. That would exclude tinpot regimes, cronies and countries too busy flogging dissidents to kick a ball.
All that is required is for the top 3 or 4 footballing nations to withdraw from FIFA and set up a new global footballing body.

similar situation to bernie and f1 at one point.

[Walford]

Think it was trying to get the winter olympics in Qatar, that finally opened the americans eyes to these scammers

[tescorank]

So the man who voted Qatar and who son is a chief exec of a Qatari based sportswear company is to appeal against his banning on the basis of that he needs to run for presidency.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/artic...

[jmorgan]

Wonder if these are options in the computer game?

[Pommygranite]

jmorgan said:

Wonder if these are options in the computer game?

Of course they are. It's called DLC - want to win and get what you want? Pay up.

[tescorank]

So I can't see why our Football Association is still backing Platini when according to Fifa's 2002 official finance report between 1999 and 2002 the organisation enjoyed surplus revenue of 115m Swiss francs (about £80m at the time), making it hard to accept that the body could not afford to pay Platini his fees.
"What also makes all this so awkward is that shortly after Platini received the money in 2011, he backed Blatter's re-election as Fifa president, deciding not to stand against him."
more here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34535150

[hornetrider]

tescorank said:

So I can't see why our Football Association is still backing Platini when according to Fifa's 2002 official finance report between 1999 and 2002 the organisation enjoyed surplus revenue of 115m Swiss francs (about £80m at the time), making it hard to accept that the body could not afford to pay Platini his fees.
"What also makes all this so awkward is that shortly after Platini received the money in 2011, he backed Blatter's re-election as Fifa president, deciding not to stand against him."
more here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34535150

Oh yeah, stinks to high heaven and this payment was clearly made so he'd stand aside for Blatter.

Frankly, FIFA have co-opted football for their own gain and basically need to be disbanded. The whole lot fking reeks.

[bad company]

I can't see why the major footballing nations don't form their own organisation and to hell with FIFA.

Under FIFA tiny countries have the same vote as say Germany & Brazil etc.

[CorbynForTheBin]

The Germany world cup being looked at re bribery now