Fifa officials including vice president Jeffrey Webb arrested, Blatter getting it at last.
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uh didn't platini vote for qatar...?
yes he did and it's shameful. but platini is not UEFA and it doesn't mean all the countries in UEFA voted for Qatar
. if it is proved that Platini got paid off for that questionable vote then he should get the boot from UEFA and a nice cosy cellanyway Blatter goes on. business as usual when this will blow all over when the news decide to cover another hot topic
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my boy sepp wins
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Disgraceful how he keeps his presidency.
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And people are surprised why?
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What a ****ing joke!
And they also sometimes view Europe and especially USA/UK with strong distaste. English language media is also seen as arrogant and hypocritical and anyone that stands up to them is courageous and worth supporting.
Not true for everyone, but that has been strong view in the past. Although I don't think people can deny the corruption any longer and even Blatter has stopped criticising the media.
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Corruption isn't the same as evil and I can't think of anything evil Fifa has done. LIkewise there is nothing anywhere suggesting it is the most corrupt sport on the planet, every sport has similar corruption. It's merely one of the most played and most popular worldwide. The organisation hasn't changed under Blatter nor would it change with him gone. He is and always has been just the guy currently in charge of a corrupt corporation, which you can say about almost any CEO of almost any company in the world. Amazon, Apple, how many companies in the UK employ child labour to make their products that we buy?
Industry is corrupt, Fifa/football is an industry, end of.
Platini voted for Qatar... but apparently it is so completely wrong to vote for them only corrupt people voted for Qatar. This scandal appears days before the election where Platini was backing Blatter's only opposition. That guy was the president of the west asian football federation which happens to include Qatar.... the guy who just lost.
When will people realise this entire thing was pushed to attempt to dethrone Blatter to get this other guy into power. I would say it's highly likely Platini leaked info and pushed for this investigation to happen right before voting to get 'his' guy into the Fifa presidency.
Considering Platini voted for Qatar and was pushing to support and get the president of the region including Qatar into the hot seat... it all screams that Platini is the corrupt one and he's helped push an investigation (which as yet has proven precisely nothing) in an attempt to get his man into the Fifa presidency.
Blatter losing and Platini's guy getting the seat seems most likely the MORE corrupt outcome.
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Again, his opposition was the president of the West Asian Football Federation, including most of those corrupt nations including Qatar. Who thinks he wasn't heavily involved in the Qatar bid, and a guy who voted for Qatar was pushing hard to get this guy into the seat.....
Why are people presuming this other guy is less corrupt than Blatter and that it would somehow be a good thing for Fifa. It has all the hallmarks of nasty political election tactics. I'm not saying he is or isn't more corrupt, I have no idea. From the outside looking in a questionably timed investigation pushed with support, a call for resignation from the biggest supporter of the opposition and considering the question marks of corruption over Qatar, a guy who voted for Qatar and the head of the regions federation seem much more likely to have been involved in the corruption than Blatter IMHO.
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At the end of the day, blatter got elected by means of a democratic process.
Are we going to say that because we didn't get the result we as the minority wanted we will no longer support democracy. Kinda like a kid throwing their toys out of a pram? There were no brown shirts or men with machine guns forcing the voters which way to vote. It seemed like an open and fair election process.
What is more corrupt than trying to oust a democratically elected leader who has support from nearly 65% of all other nations? Why don't we be honest and say we only support the system that gives us a result we want?
Are we going to say that because we didn't get the result we as the minority wanted we will no longer support democracy. Kinda like a kid throwing their toys out of a pram? There were no brown shirts or men with machine guns forcing the voters which way to vote. It seemed like an open and fair election process.
What is more corrupt than trying to oust a democratically elected leader who has support from nearly 65% of all other nations? Why don't we be honest and say we only support the system that gives us a result we want?
Because Blatter is the problem? FIFA loses all credibility even if Blatter is completely lilly white, because ultimately he has presided over a corrupt regime that has repeatedly tarnished and ejected individuals from FIFA when they have spoken out against courruption. He's failed to instigate investigations and in the few occasions he has it's been a blatant whitewash (remember the last one? When the guy that wrote it even said it had been changed?) and when the media have reported about all of this he's then attacked the media instead? Even now he's blaming UEFA for everything and implying that the arrests of key FIFA officials is a conspiracy against him.
Is it that people think this is just to do with the Qatar/Russia vote rather than corruption stretching back decades?
Turkeys voting for Christmas.
