FIFA 'Corruption'

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You've no doubt all seen the bribery allegations and so forth, but now Blatter is playing the race card:

Fifa president Sepp Blatter claims allegations surrounding the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid are motivated by racism.

Qatar was chosen as host in December 2010 but corruption claims have prompted Fifa to begin an inquiry.

"There is a sort of storm against Fifa relating to the Qatar World Cup," Blatter said. "Sadly there's a great deal of discrimination and racism."

Fifa will rule on the validity of the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in September or October.

At that point, the president of football's world governing body said, the "matter will be closed".

Speaking to African football officials in Sao Paulo, Blatter confirmed that the latest allegations would be discussed at the Fifa Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday.

He said Fifa needed to combat "anything that smacks of discrimination and racism".

"It really makes me sad," he added.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27762435

The English press are being given a rough time of it as well in Brazil at the moment, apparently. The South American Football Confederation have thrown a load of British journalists out of a press conference where Blatter was due to speak a few hours ago.

It'd be nice if someone was in charge at FIFA who didn't seem to be a totally deluded, inevitably corrupt tool.
 
Robbo said:
You've no doubt all seen the bribery allegations and so forth, but now Blatter is playing the race card:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27762435

The English press are being given a rough time of it as well in Brazil at the moment, apparently. The South American Football Confederation have thrown a load of British journalists out of a press conference where Blatter was due to speak a few hours ago.

It'd be nice if someone was in charge at FIFA who didn't seem to be a totally deluded, inevitably corrupt tool.
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My biggest question is , how the hell is Blatter still at the helm?!?
 
Weak argument considering it's only four years since we all very much enjoyed seeing the tournament in Africa.

Qatar should have been stripped of hosting the World Cup the moment their air conditioned stadia plans (as promised when bidding) fell through, never mind all of the bribery and corruption findings.

We should just boycott the World Cup and go back to holding a home nations championship, see if any of our Commonwealth friends want to join for the friendly rivalry (eg. Australia, New Zealand, India etc) and any other national teams with principles, we have the infrastructure for it.
 
Blatter is an absolute clown, along with the utter dirtbag Platini.

The sooner those 2 ***** are out of the game the better.
 
The problem is that bribery is part and parcel of every day life throughout the world and many countries don't see any issue with it.

What I do like though is that sponsors have also raised concerns so Blatter is essentially telling Sony, Visa and Coca Cola that they are racist too.
 
Afaik up to the South africa bid Fifa were quite rightly doing it on a per continent bids basis trying to take the world cup to new countries, it's a worldwide sport and I support that.

With Brazil they got screwed because no one else thought they could do better than Brazil so even though they wanted it to go to say, I dunno Venezuela or something, it ended up with Brazil so they ditched the single continent bidding.

The prevailing idea was still going to new countries, yet England bid. Corruption starts at home, we spent 30 or 60mil, something like that, on a bid when we KNEW Fifa's mandate was to host in a new country. We have corruption here, EVERY thing like this is "corrupt" in as much as, people pay to influence voting, welcome to politics. It's just the rich countries don't complain when it works in their favour and they do complain when they lose out. The guys behind the English bid got millions to put the bid forward, full well knowing they wouldn't win. Then act butt hurt when our own corruption fails and someone else's paid for votes win.

Should it be in Qatar, probably not, but it shouldn't have been in England, we were going to have a world cup in a mid eastern location at some stage so who really cares when.

Likewise Qatar would have been building massive things without the world cup with NO media attention on the workers lives lost. This kind of thing has thrown the workers awful working conditions to world wide attention, it's embarrassed them and they've been forced to somewhat improve conditions. This is how the world moves forward, embarrassment into doing the right thing more often than not now.

Mid eastern cup is inevitable, why not now, why not shine a light on the workers conditions for the next 8 years, publicly shame them, call on them to reform.

I'm only ever surprised when people don't realise political decisions involved money, always have, always will.
 
Blatter should've been ousted years ago and Platini isn't an ideal replacement IMO.

Bribery has been going on for hundreds if not thousands of years, but it's only in recent years where it has been highlighted as a problem.
 
He said Fifa needed to combat "anything that smacks of discrimination and racism"
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and what better way to show your disgust at all things discriminating and racist than by awarding the next 2 world cups to those tolerant and inclusive bastions Russia and Qatar!

Sometimes I think Blatter is like Ecclestone and just trying to be the ultimate troll with some of the stuff he comes out with. He must know what he sounds like.
 
Psycho Ned said:
and what better way to show your disgust at all things discriminating and racist than by awarding the next 2 world cups to those tolerant and inclusive bastions Russia and Qatar!

Sometimes I think Blatter is like Ecclestone and just trying to be the ultimate troll with some of the stuff he comes out with. He must know what he sounds like.
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Again, by going to such places you highlight the things that are wrong there. Having the winter olympics in Sochi absolutely shamed Russia on a worldwide scale in terms of the gay agenda they had with everyone of any substance denouncing them over their stance. Qatar is being hung out to dry in the press over workers conditions and Qatar have made moves to improve such things.

Taking these things and putting such places in the limelight brings change to them quicker than ignoring and shunning them. Inclusion and exposure is how things change, not exclusion and pretending they don't exist.

How bad certain things are in such places is a reason to actually go to these places, not to exclude them.
 
Guess you can look at it both ways, you can say giving it to those places highlights their problems with an aim to shaming them into resolving their problems but should we be rewarding the more backward thinking/ran countries by giving them some of the biggest and most lucrative events in the world?

If so then I look forward to the Olympics 2024 in North Korea and the 2026 World Cup in Sudan :p
 
Robbo said:
The English press are being given a rough time of it as well in Brazil at the moment, apparently. The South American Football Confederation have thrown a load of British journalists out of a press conference where Blatter was due to speak a few hours ago.
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How did you hear about this? I can't find anything about that?
 
Regarding the actual bid:

From what I understood of the Qatari bid package, didn't it include extensive facilities and millions of £££ spent on state of the art stadia that would render the heat meaningless?

I seem to remember mention of air conditioned stadia.

So how did we go from there to moving it to the winter? What happened to the original plan?
 
Yep like I said earlier their bid involved promises of air conditioned stadia etc but they later turned around and said it wasn't going to happen, they should have been stripped of the tournament at that point and a re-vote held (USA and Japan lost out iirc) but what with all the bribery and corruption that was hardly going to happen.
 
Surprised there wasn't a thread about this days ago.

The British press branded racist for exposing the inconvenient truth is about as lows as you can get.

Clearly Blatter is lining up a whitewash.

I just hope the countries who were cheated out of the bidding process are brave enough to stand up and be counted, and the press nail Blatter to the cross.
 
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Nothing would make me smile more than seeing Blatter and his horrible face and greasy side kick Platini found guilty of rigging this whole thing and thrown in jail!
 
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