FIFA corruption arrests

[jmorgan]

Hey up. They have handed in some computer stuff. Wonder if the feds will see the sign in screen, "please enter your windows serial number".......

[carinaman]

Won't someone think of the children legacy?

[Snozzwangler]

Fifa communications director Walter De Gregorio has been sacked after sealing his fate with a joke about the governing body on Swiss TV.

Gregorio told Swiss chat show Schawinski: "The Fifa president, secretary general and communications director are all travelling in a car. Who's driving? The police."

[carinaman]

Snozzwangler said:

Gregorio told Swiss chat show Schawinski: "The Fifa president, secretary general and communications director are all travelling in a car. Who's driving? The police."

More Andrew Jennings on how useless the British press were on Blatter:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/andrew-jennings-apar...

[Puggit]

Dan Roan (BBC Sports Editor) is tweeting that Domenico Scala (the independent head of Fifa ethics) is warning Blatter off from standing for President again (as per Swiss press article: http://www.schweizamsonntag.ch/ressort/nachrichten...

[Eric Mc]

TonyToniTone said:

Eric Mc said:

Surely that was funded by the IRFU (and the stadium sponsors)?

Would they have stumped up all the costs for a shared stadium?

Lansdowne Road has always primarilly been a Rugby stadium. It was only in the 1980s that soccer internationals began to be held there - mainly because the previous venue used (Dalymount Park) was deemed as unsuitable by both EUFA and FIFA.

Edited to quote what Wiki says about the current ownership arrangements -


"Unlike its predecessor, which was solely owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the current stadium is controlled by the IRFU and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) through a 50:50 joint venture known as the Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company (LRSDC). The joint venture has a 60-year lease on the stadium;[11] on expiry the stadium will return to the exclusive ownership of the IRFU.[12]"

Edited by Eric Mc on Sunday 14th June 11:09

[TonyToniTone]

Eric Mc said:

"Unlike its predecessor, which was solely owned by the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the current stadium is controlled by the IRFU and the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) through a 50:50 joint venture known as the Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company (LRSDC). The joint venture has a 60-year lease on the stadium;[11] on expiry the stadium will return to the exclusive ownership of the IRFU.[12]"

So that's probably what the FIFA bung was used for.

[Eric Mc]

That's what the FAI are saying. Although I don't take anything that any football authority says at face value these days.

[Snozzwangler]

Tokyo Sexwale!!!

The story that just keeps on giving!

[jmorgan]

Snozzwangler said:

Tokyo Sexwale!!!

The story that just keeps on giving!

Thought that was a name used by someone on a dodgy chat room......

[Snozzwangler]

jmorgan said:

Snozzwangler said:

Tokyo Sexwale!!!

The story that just keeps on giving!

Thought that was a name used by someone on a dodgy chat room......

I used to use it here

[Puggit]

Swiss authorities probe 53 possible money-laundering cases in his investigation into suspected corruption of the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process:

http://news.sky.com/story/1503672/swiss-probe-doze...

[Chimune]

So it looks like the US is investigating 'corruption', and the Swiss are doing the 'money laundering'.
Between the two, all the 'bribary' is bound to float to the surface..

It seems we are only at the very start of this and personally I think Blatter may end up in prison (or under a motorway viaduct if the Ruskies loose their world cup).....

[Blib]

Shirley, if they had anything on Sepp, they would have pulled him in by now?

[Chimune]

Perhaps they want to see what he does.....
Or they have 9 Tb of files to find something juicy.... That can't be a quick job.

[Bedford Rascal]

I was just thinking, and stop me if you've heard this before, but perhaps they want to see what he does.....
Or they have 9 Tb of files to find something juicy.... That can't be a quick job.

[mikees]

Bedford Rascal said:

I was just thinking, and stop me if you've heard this before, but perhaps they want to see what he does.....
Or they have 9 Tb of files to find something juicy.... That can't be a quick job.

Fkin lol at that very quick

[Muncher]

Having spent time doing eDiscovery 9tb of data isn't a huge volume of data, considering the amount of crap and duplication you will find in there.

[CaptainSlow]

Muncher said:

Having spent time doing eDiscovery 9tb of data isn't a huge volume of data, considering the amount of crap and duplication you will find in there.

I don't know, PH has kept me busy for over ten years.

[Chimune]

mikees said:

Bedford Rascal said:

I was just thinking, and stop me if you've heard this before, but perhaps they want to see what he does.....
Or they have 9 Tb of files to find something juicy.... That can't be a quick job.

Fkin lol at that very quick

bloody tablets !