toonotl 2978 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Yeah. He's as guilty as the day is long. It's amazing how sports administration seems to be such a magnet for corruption. FIFA, UCI, IOC they're all absolutely rife with accusations, or proven instances, of corruption and its been that way for decades. I can't believe a) that he wasn't forced to step down and having not stepped down, the fuckers actually re-elected him. Mind blowing. Some sort of Mexican stand-off going on iyam. Blatter needs the position to protect himself from being exposed and everyone else needs to elect him or risk having him expose them. I heard someone the other day say that YouTube, as a company, is run like an episode of Game of Thrones, with mass intrigue and every bastard back-stabbing everyone else at the first opportunity. FIFA puts that in the shade. Its all simply about money and the preservation of political leverage. FIFA is fucking Football like its some clam-shaped piñata and whilst money rains down on FIFA execs, everyone else gets to watch the very organisation that was built to protect Football act as its greatest abuser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 42408 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/32943765 English FA backs boycott of 2018 World Cup. No mention of the farce in the desert, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2978 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Qatar has more reason to be boycotted. Everyone should refuse to go purely for the human rights violations going on over there. Fucking atrocious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2204 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Qatar has more reason to be boycotted. Everyone should refuse to go purely for the human rights violations going on over there. Fucking atrocious. Absolutely. To my mind they're just a corrupt medieval desert caliphate who bought the tournament. They don't care about the people who live and die like slaves....they've fuck all to do with football and don't deserve a single spectator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2978 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Couldn't agree more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5217 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Absolutely. To my mind they're just a corrupt medieval desert caliphate who bought the tournament. They don't care about the people who live and die like slaves....they've fuck all to do with football and don't deserve a single spectator. They'll get them in their droves from China and Russia though. Blatter's probably counting on being dead by the time this insanity happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2204 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 They'll get them in their droves from China and Russia though. Blatter's probably counting on being dead by the time this insanity happens. With any luck he'll be getting rogered by Big Bubba in the toilet block of a shitty prison before then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-32952078 South Africa did pay $10m (£6.5m) to a football body led by Jack Warner, a figure at the centre of Fifa corruption allegations, local media say. Danny Jordaan, head of South Africa's FA, is quoted as confirming that the amount was deducted from a Fifa payment to the country in 2008. A subsequent letter requested that money to be sent, instead, to the Caribbean Football Union, reports say. South African officials deny it was a bribe to secure the 2010 World Cup. But US prosecutors insist South Africa made an illegal payment after the government promised $10m to Mr Warner - then a Fifa vice-president - in exchange for the "Rainbow Nation" becoming the first African country to host the World Cup. Fifa chose South Africa as host ahead of Morocco. Danny Jordaan could not be reached for comment on Sunday, but he is quoted as insisting the money was paid to the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) in 2008 as South Africa's contribution towards their football development fund. The BBC's Andrew Harding in Johannesburg says unnamed officials have confirmed that the payment was made to support football development among members of the African diaspora - something which does make sense in the political context of the time. The latest reports come with Fifa - the governing body of world football - in crisis. Senior Fifa officials face a string of bribery charges. Its head, Sepp Blatter has not been implicated but has faced calls to stand down. He was re-elected as Fifa president on Friday. In other developments: Two UK banks have launched internal reviews into whether they were used for corrupt payments by Fifa officials, the BBC understands Sepp Blatter's daughter Corrine has told the BBC that there was a conspiracy against her father who is not corrupt and has "earned every penny" English Football Association chairman Greg Dyke has called on the president of Uefa to show strong leadership to unite Europe behind a collective boycott of the 2018 World Cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44849 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Anyone with a US proxy (and you can get one as a chrome extension, kids) should watch this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30596 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/sports/soccer/sepp-blatters-top-fifa-deputy-jerome-valcke-is-said-to-have-transferred-money-central-to-bribery-case.html?referrer=&_r=0 And in entirely unrelated news Fifa president Sepp Blatter still intends to travel to Canada for the final of the Women's World Cup this month despite the crisis engulfing world football's governing body. General secretary Jerome Valcke announced on Monday that he will not be making the trip. He was due to attend the opening of the tournament, which begins on 6 June. "It is important that he attends to matters at Fifa's headquarters in Zurich," read a statement. BBC Radio 5 live sports news correspondent Richard Conway called Valcke's decision a "highly unusual move". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toonotl 2978 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 He's going to thank them for their tournament, lady. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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toonotl 2978 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Anyone with a US proxy (and you can get one as a chrome extension, kids) should watch this. Watched this Gem. Jon Oliver does some really good pieces on that show. The one on gun crime was brilliant. Same for the story on tobacco companies. And the first story on FIFA was great too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44849 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Aye it's mostly really good. Sometimes though he'll pick a topic that I find it quite hard to give a shit about. I mean they're all generally appalling injustices of one type or another, so it's great that someone with a platform is doing something to bring them to a wider audience, but sometimes I just feel like telling him to shut his ranty face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30596 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Look at the author of the letter. Clearly a pisstake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2204 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Look at the author of the letter. Clearly a pisstake. The oliphant in the room? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Look at the author of the letter. Clearly a pisstake. Molefi is not amused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7083 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Couldn't miss that Oliphant in the room. Unless it was dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44849 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 [sopranos style]OHHHHHHH![/sopranos style] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Getting closer to Blatter by the day. Currently reading this, wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30596 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Ze Germans have ruled out boycotting the 2018 WC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3892 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Ze Germans have ruled out boycotting the 2018 WC. Desperate to win something in Russia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 21915 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sonatine 11374 Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Nothing at all dodgy about that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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