Fifa officials including vice president Jeffrey Webb arrested, Blatter getting it at last.

Fifa should be shut down and a new company started instead of it. It will always have a bad image no matter who is in charge.

Those guys were a cancer in Fifa. I just hope we dont ever see this level of corruption ever again ruin the beautiful game.

I want to see Blatter locked up for 20 years in a federal prison in the USA. That would really make me so happy to see that guy get what he deserves.
 
It definitely needs tearing down and starting fresh. I don't see how and endemic problem like that can be solved just by replacing the dude at the top.
 
Jokester said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-33011692

Ho ho ho, FIFA alledgedly paid off the Irish over the Henry handball incident.
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To be fair, this sounds like a regular litigation process. Like any claim, it only ends in money, whether it goes to court or not.

The Irish threatened to sue, which the ultimate resolution is money, Unless the court can kick France out and put Ireland in which I doubt. FIFA offered them that and the Irish accepted it.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
To be fair, this sounds like a regular litigation process. Like any claim, it only ends in money, whether it goes to court or not.

The Irish threatened to sue, which the ultimate resolution is money, Unless he court can kick France out and put Ireland in which I doubt. FIFA offered them that and the Irish accepted it.
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It opens a huge can of worms.
 
Raymond Lin said:
The can of worms that the "victim" knew and happy to accept. This doesn't sound like under the table deal, just a business deal, probably with a NDA in place.
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Your missing the point. It's part of FIFA regulations that teams accept the outcome of a match, regardless of refereeing mistakes, to prevent the possibility of litigation. So it would have been very much under the table.

Now everyone will be thinking, hang on, you mean we can sue as well?
 
Irish took money to keep quiet ..hmmmmmmmmmm...the plot deepens i wonder how many European countries will be implicated
 
Brutos said:
Irish took money to keep quiet ..hmmmmmmmmmm...the plot deepens i wonder how many European countries will be implicated
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They have ALL been involved to varying degrees as I said all along.

This has always been a case of some bitter people who were corrupt and didn't win through their corruption so got upset. US guy is the MOST corrupt alongside Warner, they had a bid and probably thought... our guy is paying everyone off, we'll win. Then when they didn't get all upset about it and used their corrupt influence over the FBI to start a corrupt investigation to try and get their own corrupt guy into the presidency so they could get another corrupt bid through and win.

Welcome to how the world works. Dyke accepted gifts and one of the ones we knew about was found out about and he was like "zomg, you mean this obviously stupidly expensive watch I got as a gift is actually really expensive and a bribe.... I totally didn't know, I'll just give away that money" which afaik we have no proof he did... he still accepted the bribe and didn't return the bribe.
 
Qatar could still lose it but I don't think they would take it off Russia at this stage.

Sad to see that the corruption goes so far back though. I thought it was an odd choice of location at the time for SA but I guess now we know why.
 
MooMoo444 said:
Qatar could still lose it but I don't think they would take it off Russia at this stage.

Sad to see that the corruption goes so far back though. I thought it was an odd choice of location at the time for SA but I guess now we know why.
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For one thing, EVERY bid has been corrupt. Throughout literally the history of all time, when a group of people can vote on something others try to influence the vote.

Don't forget that lets say I was the France fifa delegate, maybe I wanted to bid for Qatar instead of the USA... then someone offers me 5mil to vote for Qatar and I accept it. It doesn't actually mean the corruption changed the vote. As often as corruption effects a vote, lets take congress or the senate voting for some kind of military action which just happens to pump 100's of billions into certain defence contracts who just happen to be offering jobs in the future for votes today, corruption is often just a way to get paid for what you were going to vote for anyway.

Fifa had a fairly noble(outwardly) goal of taking the world cup to new countries and new continents. There are millions of fans as dedicated to football who live in South Africa/Africa in general who would never get the chance to be involved in a world cup if it was generally always held in richer regions of the world.

I may choose to sell my bid, but only accept bribes from countries I deem fit in with that goal. For instance without remembering who else bid, maybe Fifa had a decent goal of holding the cup in new places and the USA, England, Japan, South Africa and Australia all bid. I may rule out the first three automatically then give my bid to whoever offers the most out of South Africa and Australia.

Corruption can be more or less corrupt than you think, it can change the outcome of a vote or merely mean people get paid for the votes they would make anyway.

If you don't think even back in 66 that people were nudged along into voting for the World Cup to be in England with favours and fancy meals out and promises... this is how the world has worked since the dawn of time. People make deals to get into positions in their federations, lets say Dyke was appointed because before he got the position he promised to support someone who then pushed to get him into a job at the FA. Old boys club and friends of friends getting jobs. Then from the FA people make promises to get votes to be elected to Fifa, then at Fifa you make promises to people to get people to vote for your bid.

We take part in corruption with our own government elections. How did the parties get elected exactly, oh right, by making promises. How did Miliband get elected as head of the party, that's right, by making promises to the unions to get their support.

Blair supported an illegal war and lied to his country... then magically gets paid a million here and a million there to make speeches to executives in fancy luxury retreats for uber rich businessmen. If you looked at who made money out of the war and who is paying for those speeches and retreats don't be surprised to see a lot of the same companies.

I just find it hilarious people are getting upset about the world freaking cup... but are absolutely fine with everything else.
 
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