pap Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Telegraph piece. Time to disband it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 The only surprise about this is that anyone finds this news a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 11 May, 2011 Author Share Posted 11 May, 2011 I think the key thing here is Lord Triesman flinging the accusations. At the time of writing, it is his word against theirs*. * plus the fact that the after Brazil, the next two World Cups will be held in resource-rich countries dominated by rich and powerful oligarchs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedg Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Like Danny Bakers (@prodnose) tweet about this: NEWS ITEM: "Bribe Claims" made against Fifa members over World Cup bid. In a related story, "Revolving claims" made about earth around sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 11 May, 2011 Author Share Posted 11 May, 2011 "There is a desire to try and work and change Fifa from the inside," Robertson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. "If Fifa proves unable to do that, then I would say all options are possible." Full article here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Full article here. It will never happen, we will just threaten to do it because FIFA knows it would be a huge blow to lose us. I would absolutely love it if it did happen though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Shocking people at FIFA. We have known for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 11 May, 2011 Author Share Posted 11 May, 2011 It will never happen, we will just threaten to do it because FIFA knows it would be a huge blow to lose us. I would absolutely love it if it did happen though! I'd love to see a bunch of big countries form their own federation. There's a lot of stuff that could be fixed as part of the process, such as goal-line technology, etc. As the country that invented the game, we're have a unique position of legitimacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Blatter is a disgrace to Football. The World game needs to move against him and FIFA for the good of the sport. Football needs to go the way of boxing with a new world body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Question is, if we did walk out from FIFA, who would come with us? I assume USA and Australia might as they are as p***ed off with the latest goings on as we are. USA would be a huge blow; Australia not so big. But what about the rest of Europe? Platini has ambitions to take over from Blatter so he might not want to rock the boat there. Not sure if he could keep the European nations within UEFA/FIFA or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Perhaps Sky needs to flex its financial muscles? Or perhaps it already does... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint1977 Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 The best way to finish FIFA and Blatter is for all the major nations to make the Russia World Cup the last ever FIFA one in 2018, walk out after that and set up a UEFA World Cup and invite the major S American nations, US, Oceania, Asian & African nations. FIFA can enjoy Qatar with a Qatar Vs Cambodia "World Cup Final" or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 11 May, 2011 Share Posted 11 May, 2011 Well............. We're always crap in big tournaments The PL managers hate their players being called up for International Duty So simple solution, FA & FL drop out of FIFA and refuse to release any of their Foreign Players Yeah right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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