Goaters 103 wrote:Terrific summation in a tweet by Dan Walker on FIFA
"If you ever committed a crime it would great to investigate yourself, appoint a judge & not have to disclose any evidence"
The English FA should continue to highlight them for the corrupt bastards they are, and aside from fulfilling international fixtures, give them fucl all in terms of money, sponsorship, comment, assistance, exposure, tickets, anything.
TBH if all the European nations simply pulled out of the 2022 WC, which is the biggest farce of a tournament award in the history of man. Footballs supposed flagship tournament, awarded to a nation with no stadiums whatsoever, no domestic league at all, temperatures of 120 plus degrees at the time of the games themselves? Ha ha haaaaa. Right, good one.
Wonderwall wrote:Goaters 103 wrote:Terrific summation in a tweet by Dan Walker on FIFA
"If you ever committed a crime it would great to investigate yourself, appoint a judge & not have to disclose any evidence"
The English FA should continue to highlight them for the corrupt bastards they are, and aside from fulfilling international fixtures, give them fucl all in terms of money, sponsorship, comment, assistance, exposure, tickets, anything.
TBH if all the European nations simply pulled out of the 2022 WC, which is the biggest farce of a tournament award in the history of man. Footballs supposed flagship tournament, awarded to a nation with no stadiums whatsoever, no domestic league at all, temperatures of 120 plus degrees at the time of the games themselves? Ha ha haaaaa. Right, good one.
I agree wit the sentiment here, I too would LOVE it if England came out and said it as it was and said to the whole of football, that if that is the way they want football to be ran, then we want no part of it. Its either Blatter steps down and a full review of the process for the 2018/22 world cups is revised and revoted on. Or we walk away and say a big fuck you to FIFA. They are no longer welcome here for internationals....of course there would be ramifications for the domestic game but it would ruffle feathers and there would be an almighty fallout from it. I cant see any good coming from any other decision TBH. We need to point out the big fucking elephant in the room.
Ted Hughes wrote:Wonderwall wrote:Goaters 103 wrote:Terrific summation in a tweet by Dan Walker on FIFA
"If you ever committed a crime it would great to investigate yourself, appoint a judge & not have to disclose any evidence"
The English FA should continue to highlight them for the corrupt bastards they are, and aside from fulfilling international fixtures, give them fucl all in terms of money, sponsorship, comment, assistance, exposure, tickets, anything.
TBH if all the European nations simply pulled out of the 2022 WC, which is the biggest farce of a tournament award in the history of man. Footballs supposed flagship tournament, awarded to a nation with no stadiums whatsoever, no domestic league at all, temperatures of 120 plus degrees at the time of the games themselves? Ha ha haaaaa. Right, good one.
I agree wit the sentiment here, I too would LOVE it if England came out and said it as it was and said to the whole of football, that if that is the way they want football to be ran, then we want no part of it. Its either Blatter steps down and a full review of the process for the 2018/22 world cups is revised and revoted on. Or we walk away and say a big fuck you to FIFA. They are no longer welcome here for internationals....of course there would be ramifications for the domestic game but it would ruffle feathers and there would be an almighty fallout from it. I cant see any good coming from any other decision TBH. We need to point out the big fucking elephant in the room.
Well we don't yet know what is in the actual full report. It could be that the bloke who did it is also a stooge & the whole thing is a double bluff. FIFA are 'forced' to release it & then do so, & we find nothing else in it, apart from a bit more embarrassment for the English FA. I would put nothing past these people.
If however the report is badly damaging for FIFA, & this is a desperate attempt to cover it up, I think they will struggle to get away with it. I imagine this will come out . If it doesn't, THEN would be the time for perhaps more than one association to make a stand.
JamieMCFC wrote:FBI moves ahead with FIFA corruption probe
Washington (CNN) -- U.S. investigators are stepping up the pace of a corruption investigation into senior leaders of FIFA, even as the world soccer body is giving itself a clean bill of health, according to U.S. law enforcement officials.
The FIFA ethics committee announced Thursday that it was closing its investigation into alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 bidding process that awarded the World Cup to Russia and Qatar, respectively.
FIFA said its investigation found no corruption and has no reason to reopen the bidding process.
But the FBI, which is leading the U.S. probe, isn't ready to do the same. Investigators are moving ahead with their probe, which could result in charges against senior FIFA officials, the U.S. law enforcement officials said.
FBI agents based in New York are moving ahead with their 3-year-old investigation, which will likely benefit from the findings of a former U.S. prosecutor, Michael Garcia, who was hired by FIFA to do an internal probe. The FBI plans to seek access to Garcia's report, which FIFA hasn't yet released.
The FBI declined to offer an official comment.
Garcia on Thursday distanced himself from the FIFA ethics announcement, saying: "Today's decision by the Chairman of the Adjudicatory Chamber contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions detailed in the Investigatory Chamber's report. I intend to appeal this decision to the FIFA Appeal Committee."
A U.S. law enforcement official said the probe is looking at a variety of alleged corruption issues, including the 2018 and 2022 bidding process.
The FBI investigation includes the cooperation of a former top FIFA official who has provided documents and recordings of meetings with colleagues, law enforcement officials said.
The New York Daily news, which reported on the cooperation of former FIFA official Chuck Blazer, quoted Blazer as saying: "I just can't talk about that."
FIFA has long been dogged by allegations of corruption. In 2011, the FIFA banned for life Mohamed bin Hammam, a Qatari member of its top governing body, for ethics violations.
The organization says it is planning unspecific improvements in the way it conducts World Cup bids.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/13/politics/ ... ?hpt=hp_t2
blue-nova wrote:Given that Chuck Blazer the ex-FIFA exec has been working for the FBI for a while and bugging meetings, you'd hope they have enough evidence to bring the whole corrupt lot down once and for all.
It really is bizarre that they've got away with being so openly corrupt for so long. Why on earth should a group of pensioners in Switzerland have such control over football?
john68 wrote:Personally, My view is that football administration is "ROTTEN TO THE CORE" at almost every senior level. Be that FiFA, UeFA or even our own FA and Premier League. Not only is that side of football rotten to the core, but I have absolutely no faith in POGMOL to deliver fair referees or a fair refereeing selection system. Added to that, the global power of the betting syndicates, whether from much publicised Asian groups or anywhere else has a huge controlling power over results.
The game now attracts £100sBns each year globally and wherever there is that amount of money, there is shite...In this case big shite. We fans are being led up the garden path and royally fleeced to feed their greed.
Amen
mr_nool wrote:john68 wrote:Personally, My view is that football administration is "ROTTEN TO THE CORE" at almost every senior level. Be that FiFA, UeFA or even our own FA and Premier League. Not only is that side of football rotten to the core, but I have absolutely no faith in POGMOL to deliver fair referees or a fair refereeing selection system. Added to that, the global power of the betting syndicates, whether from much publicised Asian groups or anywhere else has a huge controlling power over results.
The game now attracts £100sBns each year globally and wherever there is that amount of money, there is shite...In this case big shite. We fans are being led up the garden path and royally fleeced to feed their greed.
Amen
I think pretty much all international (and to some extent national) sporting federations are corrupt. I know that the international volleyball federation has been a real maelstrom of greed in the last decade and a half, and the international wrestling federation is beyond a joke, just to mention two.
They're basically clubs for old chums to smoke pipe, pat one another's backs and award your pals nice contracts.
But the more money involved, the bigger the greed, and the shadier the culprits. The old boys are still - to a degree - running FIFA, but I'm sure that they're now in bed with thugs, dictators, and bank executives.
john68 wrote:Personally, My view is that football administration is "ROTTEN TO THE CORE" at almost every senior level. Be that FiFA, UeFA or even our own FA and Premier League. Amen
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