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Post by scotchegg on Oct 4, 2015 0:40:37 GMT
Am I the only one bored by this?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 8:56:23 GMT
Am I the only one bored by this? I suppose... you just could just f*ck off and not read it then.
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Post by scotchegg on Oct 4, 2015 9:23:38 GMT
Am I the only one bored by this? I suppose... you just could just f*ck off and not read it then. But then you're lectures would be in vain!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 7:53:42 GMT
www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/06/fifa-presidential-candidate-chung-mong-joon-facing-suspensionPick the bones out of this one. McDonalds, Coca-Cola on one side (see reports passim) Gazprom and Adidas on the other Now we see the champion for Hyundai getting his come-uppance. Does Blatter seriously think he can hang on? All he really needs is one country that won't extradite him since I still think he has enough marbles at FIFA. Russia or Quatar might be good choices for a new holiday home for Sepp. When you start to follow the money who knows where it might lead.
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Post by Marked Ox on Oct 7, 2015 17:25:52 GMT
FIFA Ethics Committee have finally grown some balls and recommended Sepp Blatter be suspended.
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Post by oufcyellows on Oct 7, 2015 17:51:00 GMT
FIFA Ethics Committee have finally grown some balls and recommended Sepp Blatter be suspended. The Americans told them to
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2015 18:45:46 GMT
FIFA Ethics Committee have finally grown some balls and recommended Sepp Blatter be suspended. The Americans told them to During 24 years of the dark prince of corruption Joao Havelange nobody at FIFA or anywhere else seemed terribly bothered by it. 17 year of Sepp Blatter and no investigation of any kind. over 40 years where corruption was an open secret at FIFA - everybody knew but nobody said or did anything. but now suddenly the world is interested... ...prompted by a U.S. investigation... ...in the run up to Russia 2018 - that they are already calling "a World Cup of fraud". What's the connection Sky News fans?
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Post by oufcyellows on Oct 7, 2015 18:55:06 GMT
A football
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Post by Marked Ox on Oct 8, 2015 11:45:28 GMT
As well as Sepp Blatter being suspended, Vice-President Michel Platini, and General Secretary Jerome Valcke have also been suspended.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 8, 2015 12:15:17 GMT
Finally, some action at FIFA. Eckert finally did something than wasn't redacting reports. It's a shame that the temporary President Issa Hayatou is no better than those suspended. The FA should never have got behind Platini as they did.
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Post by Lone Gunman on Oct 8, 2015 12:20:10 GMT
Finally, some action at FIFA. Eckert finally did something than wasn't redacting reports. It's a shame that the temporary President Issa Hayatou is no better than those suspended. The FA should never have got behind Platini as they did. I imagine the FA's support for Platini was motivated by the fact that he has a pathological hatred of England and English football and the FA wanted to mitigate the effects of this on the game in this country. Either way the guy is a corrupt piece of **** and I hope this has wrecked his chanced of being FIFA president, but I doubt it has.
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Post by saddletramp on Oct 8, 2015 12:26:01 GMT
Nominations for the new President have to be in by 26/10/2015,can a suspended person apply ?
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 8, 2015 12:31:12 GMT
Finally, some action at FIFA. Eckert finally did something than wasn't redacting reports. It's a shame that the temporary President Issa Hayatou is no better than those suspended. The FA should never have got behind Platini as they did. I imagine the FA's support for Platini was motivated by the fact that he has a pathological hatred of England and English football and the FA wanted to mitigate the effects of this on the game in this country. Either way the guy is a corrupt piece of **** and I hope this has wrecked his chanced of being FIFA president, but I doubt it has. Which is a bizarre reason to support him. If he hates us, by all means support him, but it came across as incredibly two faced when few candidates were announced. Dyke looked a joke when he announced it, and he's even worse now. I can't wait for him to leave the FA. I cannot conceive a scenario where Platini can stand for president. Which is fantastic. He's Blatter lite. Football does not need that. It needs something different that the same old characters.
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Post by Lone Gunman on Oct 8, 2015 14:01:50 GMT
I imagine the FA's support for Platini was motivated by the fact that he has a pathological hatred of England and English football and the FA wanted to mitigate the effects of this on the game in this country. Either way the guy is a corrupt piece of **** and I hope this has wrecked his chanced of being FIFA president, but I doubt it has. Which is a bizarre reason to support him. If he hates us, by all means support him, but it came across as incredibly two faced when few candidates were announced. Dyke looked a joke when he announced it, and he's even worse now. I can't wait for him to leave the FA. I cannot conceive a scenario where Platini can stand for president. Which is fantastic. He's Blatter lite. Football does not need that. It needs something different that the same old characters. I guess Dyke eventually came to see Platini's election as inevitable and thus had to support him regardless of what he'd previously said. It's also not so bizarre when you consider the fact that Dyke is a complete clown. As for the frog's election, were this any other organisation there would have been no scenario in which Blatter could have been re-elected, but he still was.
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Post by foley on Oct 8, 2015 14:32:25 GMT
The Americans told them to over 40 years where corruption was an open secret at FIFA - everybody knew but nobody said or did anything. but now suddenly the world is interested... ...prompted by a U.S. investigation... I think that it would be fair to suggest that the English have been interested for a while. It may not have done them any favour, but the FA have been anti Blatter and him leading FIFA and the British Press particularly the Times has taken a big interest in the corruption.
If a US investigation was required to open the whole thing up then fair play to the Americans for doing so.
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Post by foley on Oct 8, 2015 14:40:32 GMT
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Post by Boogaloo on Oct 8, 2015 15:00:18 GMT
I always thought the only reason the FA backed Blatter was because he isn't Sepp Blatter? Anyone who challenges is Sepp Blatter is automatically assumed to be 'the good guy'. Or is that being too simplistic?
Of course now Platini has been outed, I'm sure the FA will throw their weight behind someone else. I've not got a problem with that - we all make mistakes.
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Post by Marked Ox on Oct 8, 2015 20:26:53 GMT
It is the only way now. Everybody senior within FIFA and the various regional bodies, even those who haven't done anything, are tainted.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 8, 2015 20:49:14 GMT
Which is a bizarre reason to support him. If he hates us, by all means support him, but it came across as incredibly two faced when few candidates were announced. Dyke looked a joke when he announced it, and he's even worse now. I can't wait for him to leave the FA. I cannot conceive a scenario where Platini can stand for president. Which is fantastic. He's Blatter lite. Football does not need that. It needs something different that the same old characters. I guess Dyke eventually came to see Platini's election as inevitable and thus had to support him regardless of what he'd previously said. It's also not so bizarre when you consider the fact that Dyke is a complete clown. As for the frog's election, were this any other organisation there would have been no scenario in which Blatter could have been re-elected, but he still was. I don't think Platini was/is inevitable to be elected. Some parts of the world cannot stand him and he did the dirty on Sepp. Dyke loves himself more than he likes football it seems. I suppose you're right. Not even a real football fan. Would he go on the terraces like Eales has? Too interested in prawn sandwiches me thinks.
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Post by holdsteady on Oct 8, 2015 21:02:18 GMT
I guess Dyke eventually came to see Platini's election as inevitable and thus had to support him regardless of what he'd previously said. It's also not so bizarre when you consider the fact that Dyke is a complete clown. As for the frog's election, were this any other organisation there would have been no scenario in which Blatter could have been re-elected, but he still was. I don't think Platini was/is inevitable to be elected. Some parts of the world cannot stand him and he did the dirty on Sepp. Dyke loves himself more than he likes football it seems. I suppose you're right. Not even a real football fan. Would he go on the terraces like Eales has? Too interested in prawn sandwiches me thinks. Dyke Was sat next to Eales chatting away at our home fa cup tie against Tranmere last season, seemed quite pally for what that's worth.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 8, 2015 21:14:55 GMT
I don't think Platini was/is inevitable to be elected. Some parts of the world cannot stand him and he did the dirty on Sepp. Dyke loves himself more than he likes football it seems. I suppose you're right. Not even a real football fan. Would he go on the terraces like Eales has? Too interested in prawn sandwiches me thinks. Dyke Was sat next to Eales chatting away at our home fa cup tie against Tranmere last season, seemed quite pally for what that's worth. Eales is well connected, so its no surprise. I can't see Dyke slumming it with us lot though.
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Post by holdsteady on Oct 9, 2015 4:39:45 GMT
Dyke Was sat next to Eales chatting away at our home fa cup tie against Tranmere last season, seemed quite pally for what that's worth. Eales is well connected, so its no surprise. I can't see Dyke slumming it with us lot though. You lot can slum it, I am up for Greg taking me under his wing and living the life of a football dignitary, trips around the world with a separate hotel room for my dog etc sounds good to me, you can never have enough brown paper bags.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 9, 2015 8:02:33 GMT
Eales is well connected, so its no surprise. I can't see Dyke slumming it with us lot though. You lot can slum it, I am up for Greg taking me under his wing and living the life of a football dignitary, trips around the world with a separate hotel room for my dog etc sounds good to me, you can never have enough brown paper bags. It depends what is in those paper bags. It seems that the evil emperor is going to appeal his suspension. It's no surprise as his life is FIFA and without it, he's nothing.
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Post by holdsteady on Oct 9, 2015 8:31:39 GMT
You lot can slum it, I am up for Greg taking me under his wing and living the life of a football dignitary, trips around the world with a separate hotel room for my dog etc sounds good to me, you can never have enough brown paper bags. It depends what is in those paper bags. It seems that the evil emperor is going to appeal his suspension. It's no surprise as his life is FIFA and without it, he's nothing. Gold bullion going by how they live. He will drag it out as long as he can then claim Ill health as to why he cant stand trial, at his age its the smart option.
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Post by Marked Ox on Oct 14, 2015 13:49:49 GMT
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 14, 2015 20:50:32 GMT
The house of cards is finally falling down it seems. And about bloody time.
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 16, 2015 12:27:55 GMT
The FA are furiously backing away from support Platini after the UEFA meeting yesterday. I'm surprised they had it in them.
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Post by bazzer9461 on Oct 16, 2015 13:16:53 GMT
The FA are furiously backing away from support Platini after the UEFA meeting yesterday. I'm surprised they had it in them. Its all corrupt FA cant be associated with corruption.
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Post by Marked Ox on Oct 16, 2015 15:46:17 GMT
German paper Der Spiegel's online site are alledging that the German Bidding Committee for the 2006 World Cup had a slush fund(provided via a loan from Louis-Dreyfus, the Chairman of Adidas) that paid out 6.7m Euros bribes to get the votes of the 4 Asian Representatives on the FIFA Executive Committee. Alledgedly, to cover it up they paid a 6.7m Euro fee into FIFA for an Opening Ceremony Gala at Berlin's Olympic Stadium but this was cancelled, and then FIFA paid Louis-Dreyfus the fee to repay the loan. Link: www.spiegel.de/international/world/documents-indicate-slush-fund-used-in-german-world-cup-bid-a-1058212.html
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Post by Gary Baldi on Oct 16, 2015 20:59:06 GMT
German paper Der Spiegel's online site are alledging that the German Bidding Committee for the 2006 World Cup had a slush fund(provided via a loan from Louis-Dreyfus, the Chairman of Adidas) that paid out 6.7m Euros bribes to get the votes of the 4 Asian Representatives on the FIFA Executive Committee. Alledgedly, to cover it up they paid a 6.7m Euro fee into FIFA for an Opening Ceremony Gala at Berlin's Olympic Stadium but this was cancelled, and then FIFA paid Louis-Dreyfus the fee to repay the loan. Link: www.spiegel.de/international/world/documents-indicate-slush-fund-used-in-german-world-cup-bid-a-1058212.htmlThere are various allegations about The Kaiser and how his vote may have been available not for merit but for other means. It's an open secret about how bids have historically had slush funds available for favours and unforeseen expenses. Qatar's cheque book didn't have many cheques left by the end of the process allegedly. Adidas are a long term FIFA dependent, look at how long they've been in an exclusive deal with FIFA. It wouldn't be out of the realms of possibility they were tipped the wink about their slush fund.
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