FIFA 'Corruption'

Robbo

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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.
 
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