Blatter finally admits Qatar world cup error
Discussion
BrabusMog said:
Unbelievable. Completely unbelievable. There is being out of touch, then there is Blatter and, to a lesser extent, Platini. The worst thing is that football fans have lined their pockets for years and years, whether or not we wanted to. From the grassroots up, everyone pays into FIFA in one way or another. I just hope that something is done to prevent bandits like Blatter getting anywhere near the top again. There's having a jolly and then there is taking the piss and there is what Blatter et al have done for over a decade. It's sickening.
I quite liked the complaint: "they are putting me in the same bag as Blatter"Hardly a ringing enforcement for Blatter from his (ex) best pal Platini? Goes some way to condemn Blatter doesn't it as well as imply Platini may also be in the wrong but nowhere as bad as Blatter? That's the way I choose to read it anyway
Slaav said:
I quite liked the complaint: "they are putting me in the same bag as Blatter"
Hardly a ringing enforcement for Blatter from his (ex) best pal Platini? Goes some way to condemn Blatter doesn't it as well as imply Platini may also be in the wrong but nowhere as bad as Blatter? That's the way I choose to read it anyway
"Yeah, I only knocked his teeth out officer, it was the older guy that stamped on his head..."Hardly a ringing enforcement for Blatter from his (ex) best pal Platini? Goes some way to condemn Blatter doesn't it as well as imply Platini may also be in the wrong but nowhere as bad as Blatter? That's the way I choose to read it anyway
Tonsko said:
Same with anything like that in near enough any company. Whilst the Beeb does waste money in some areas, I think it's unfair to single them out for this specific issue. After all, they probably get chelped at by a load of whingers saying that they pay the license fee, why should 'forners' get it for free. Rock and a hard place. Chances are the techs are saying 'There's no point, this is how you get around it' and their managers are saying ,'I know that, you know that, upper mgt have a policy that can't be changed, we must be seen to be enacting on it.' Upper mgt are sat around discussing how they can be seen to be not giving BBCs efforts away for free to people who don't pay licence fee.
Round and round we go. It was ever thus.
Bit of 'blue sky' thinking required imho. Why doesn't the Beeb offer access to all programming over the web, internationally and commercially? I'd be happy to pay for it, but as it is we have to do all these workarounds. I guess that there are agreements on international borders etc., but when the Beeb is held up as the world standard I don't see why us expats shouldn't be able to subscribe? I'd happily subscribe to the likes of NBC potentially too...Round and round we go. It was ever thus.
Quite. I subscribe to the WRC stuff. Simple. It's not beyond anyone to provide a subscriber service. Although the NHL tend to make a bit of a pigs ear of it - for example, never got the mobile app streaming to work, as I'm not in the US. Also, I get game blackouts due to local agreements... Why do I care about that, and why should I be affected? The support is a bit bobbins, but, I can imagine for them it's a numbers game: most subs are going to be US based and international subs are probably a tiny tiny percent, and thus not worth spending resources on.
So no change at FIFA, Platini's old mate who I believe is named the bag man gets elected.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35673743
Edited by tescorank on Friday 26th February 17:25
So the new "Blatter" Gianni Infantino is already a suspect.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/06/uef...
Uefa was raided by Swiss police on Wednesday, hours after new Fifa president Gianni Infantino was dragged into the Panama Papers affair.
Federal officers swooped unannounced on Uefa’s Nyon headquarters and seized details of a contract signed off by its former general secretary with one of the men at the centre of world football’s corruption scandal.
The raid, with which Uefa fully co-operated, was carried out after International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published the latest revelations from the Panama Papers leak.
Hiding money in Panama is 'breaking the law'Play! 01:51
They showed that Infantino co-signed contracts with a company owned by Hugo Jinkis, who was indicted in the United States in May as part of an alleged £100 million fraud.
European football’s governing body last year declared it had no dealings with those involved in the scandal to have engulfed Fifa, which also previously said the same about Infantino personally.
Despite there being no evidence of any wrongdoing in the awarding of the contract signed by the Swiss, Fifa and Uefa’s prior denials made Tuesday’s revelation an embarrassment for both him and them.
The Panama Papers show that, a decade ago, when Infantino was director of legal services at Uefa, the organisation sold the rights for broadcasting its club competitions – including the Champions League – in South America to a company called Cross Trading.
Cross Trading, which immediately sold the rights on to broadcaster Teleamazonas for about three or four times the amount paid, is a subsidiary of a company called Full Play.
Full Play is owned by Jinkis who, along with his son Mariano, is under house arrest in Argentina.
Having checked through thousands of contracts, Uefa also confirmed that in addition to two it agreed with Cross Trading, it had also signed a European Championship hospitality sales agreement with Traffic Sports Europe, a Brazilian company named extensively in the US indictment.
Confirming the police raid, Uefa said: “Uefa can confirm that today we received a visit from the office of the Swiss Federal Police acting under a warrant and requesting sight of the contracts between Uefa and Cross Trading/Teleamazonas. Naturally, Uefa is providing the Federal Police with all relevant documents in our possession and will cooperate fully.”
Tuesday night’s revelations were the latest from a leak of 11 million documents from the files of the offshore financial law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Infantino said on Tuesday: “I am dismayed and will not accept that my integrity is being doubted by certain areas of the media, especially given that Uefa has already disclosed in detail all facts regarding these contracts.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/06/uef...
Uefa was raided by Swiss police on Wednesday, hours after new Fifa president Gianni Infantino was dragged into the Panama Papers affair.
Federal officers swooped unannounced on Uefa’s Nyon headquarters and seized details of a contract signed off by its former general secretary with one of the men at the centre of world football’s corruption scandal.
The raid, with which Uefa fully co-operated, was carried out after International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published the latest revelations from the Panama Papers leak.
Hiding money in Panama is 'breaking the law'Play! 01:51
They showed that Infantino co-signed contracts with a company owned by Hugo Jinkis, who was indicted in the United States in May as part of an alleged £100 million fraud.
European football’s governing body last year declared it had no dealings with those involved in the scandal to have engulfed Fifa, which also previously said the same about Infantino personally.
Despite there being no evidence of any wrongdoing in the awarding of the contract signed by the Swiss, Fifa and Uefa’s prior denials made Tuesday’s revelation an embarrassment for both him and them.
The Panama Papers show that, a decade ago, when Infantino was director of legal services at Uefa, the organisation sold the rights for broadcasting its club competitions – including the Champions League – in South America to a company called Cross Trading.
Cross Trading, which immediately sold the rights on to broadcaster Teleamazonas for about three or four times the amount paid, is a subsidiary of a company called Full Play.
Full Play is owned by Jinkis who, along with his son Mariano, is under house arrest in Argentina.
Having checked through thousands of contracts, Uefa also confirmed that in addition to two it agreed with Cross Trading, it had also signed a European Championship hospitality sales agreement with Traffic Sports Europe, a Brazilian company named extensively in the US indictment.
Confirming the police raid, Uefa said: “Uefa can confirm that today we received a visit from the office of the Swiss Federal Police acting under a warrant and requesting sight of the contracts between Uefa and Cross Trading/Teleamazonas. Naturally, Uefa is providing the Federal Police with all relevant documents in our possession and will cooperate fully.”
Tuesday night’s revelations were the latest from a leak of 11 million documents from the files of the offshore financial law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Infantino said on Tuesday: “I am dismayed and will not accept that my integrity is being doubted by certain areas of the media, especially given that Uefa has already disclosed in detail all facts regarding these contracts.”
He's gonna go to jail, paying himself millions.
On no,Blatter And Deputies 'Paid Themselves Millions' http://news.sky.com/story/1706465/blatter-and-depu...
On no,Blatter And Deputies 'Paid Themselves Millions' http://news.sky.com/story/1706465/blatter-and-depu...
"Increasing risk to tournament" in 2022: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41522970
Digger said:
So let us see if Russia and Brazil could potentially meet up in the Final.
Looking at the draw, if Brazil and Russia win their groups they meet in the semi-finals, if one finishes as runner-up they meet in the final (if they both get that far)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup#...
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