eling-saint Posted 20 June, 2011 Share Posted 20 June, 2011 Sums up just what bunch of corrupt individuals run football! Always looking after themselves! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13845203.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Um Bongo Posted 20 June, 2011 Share Posted 20 June, 2011 "As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained," said a Fifa statement." Yeah, funny that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 20 June, 2011 Share Posted 20 June, 2011 "As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained," said a Fifa statement." Yeah, funny that. This is laughable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revolution saint Posted 20 June, 2011 Share Posted 20 June, 2011 And Blatter worries why people don't think FIFA are serious about tackling corruption? If anything this makes them and Warner look even more guilty. Warner will probably be back in a couple of years as well. I'd definitely support boycotting the Quatar World Cup - it's going to be a joke tournament and they should never have got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snopper Posted 20 June, 2011 Share Posted 20 June, 2011 Seems to me that `FIFA Ethics Committee` is arguably the most blatant contradiction in terms ever invented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrent Of Abuse Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 No wonder they don't like governments exerting political interference: They have enough corrupt politicians inside their ranks already. No room for competition. Warner seems to have 'earned' some kind of immunity because it suits both him and FIFA for everything to be swept under the carpet. This is white-collar justice: You don't get prosecuted. You don't get fired. You get urged to take your pension and retire early with a handshake and some mealy-mouthed statement of thanks for all the hard work. FIFA will never fix itself by itself. Why should it lay its failing open to the world for all to see? The individual football associations won't fix FIFA. Why would any of them poke their heads above the parapet and risk being left exposed when other associations stay quiet and play dumb? If the FA decide to quit from FIFA in the spirit of fairness then I will admire their principles but marvel at their stupidity because it will achieve nothing and taint the home nations with a tag of trouble-making which will mean we are made outsiders for a lifetime. I doubt whether many of the mainstream media will follow this story for long either (without prompting). They too will need to suckle from the FIFA teat when they look to get rights for coverage of the next World Cup. Can't rock the boat too much. The most sensible thing would be for the FA to appoint a public relations team to run an anti-FIFA campaign behind the scenes. It would secretly feed a steady drip of stories of corruption to the more investigative elements of the media to keep FIFA on the back foot until the next world cup in 2014. It could perhaps use social media like Twitter to keep a steady stream of tags/topics mocking FIFA's corrupt practices in the public eye. It would try everything it could to keep the idea of FIFA's corrupt heart in the public eye. Why do this in such a roundabout manner? Well, to my mind, it gradually tarnishes the FIFA brand. When you tarnish the FIFA brand, you threaten its advertising. When you remove its advertising revenues you remove its funding. When you remove its funding, it turns from being a vast, rich, insular rich boys club into one more willing to do real business and effect change. It's too powerful right now for anyone to take it on directly but if its support mechanism can be chewed away at, then the whole ugly, corrupt structure will fall away. When that happens, the most corrupt will be offered up in the name of justice, some newer (more transparently accountable) faces will appear and the rest of the sheep in FIFA will fall in line. It's sad but to my mind, that's the way the world really works. Principles are great but without smarts they don't do s***. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 FIFA's statement: "As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained." What they really meant: "We are as relieved as f*ck that Mr. Warner has agreed to fall on his sword. We all presumed he was guilty as hell, but now we won't have to dig into all that sh*t and risk having him squeal about all the other corrupt practices going on around here. Pheewww! Thanks Jack!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 Seems to me that `FIFA Ethics Committee` is arguably the most blatant contradiction in terms ever invented. Yes, a classic oxymoron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 FIFA's statement: "As a consequence of Mr Warner's resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained." What they really meant: "We are as relieved as f*ck that Mr. Warner has agreed to fall on his sword. We all presumed he was guilty as hell, but now we won't have to dig into all that sh*t and risk having him squeal about all the other corrupt practices going on around here. Pheewww! Thanks Jack!" Quite. Imagine a parallel. A key worker in a children's home is suspected of abusing his charges. He resigns and the home makes a statement that the investigative procedures against him will now be closed and the presumption of innocense will be maintained. Yeah, right. What a corrupt organisation FIFA is and the higher up you go, the more corruption there is, right up to the very top, with Sepp Blatter. Much the same really as Juan Samaranch and the Olympic Committee. We ought to gain the support of another four or five major footballing nations like France, Germany, Italy and Spain and leave FIFA and not take part in the next World Cup, which will then be a farce without us. Alternatively, as in Boxing, there is always the possibility of setting up a rival governing body. The trouble is, our governing body in this country doesn't even have the balls to act and discipline the cheating Skates, so I won't hold my breath that they will take any serious action to challenge the hierarchy at FIFA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 Much as I detest Mr Warner & pretty much anything to do with FIFA, I'm not sure what continuing the so-called investigation would achieve, if he were to be found guilty what sanctions could be taken, as he is no-longer part of the FIFA organisation? If there is a whiff of criminal activity shouldn't the police be investigating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eurosaint Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 Much as I detest Mr Warner & pretty much anything to do with FIFA, I'm not sure what continuing the so-called investigation would achieve, if he were to be found guilty what sanctions could be taken, as he is no-longer part of the FIFA organisation? If there is a whiff of criminal activity shouldn't the police be investigating? Blatter promised 'total transparency', this was his first opportunity to prove that he was serious and look at the result, a joke once again !!! A proper (independent) investigation into all the corruption charges is the only way forward, anything less is a cop out ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 Watch Blatter do nothing about corruption for the rest of his tenure, since he can now point to the departure of Warner as evidence that he's done something and cleaned up FIFA's operation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 I doubt if the FIFA investigation would find anything to pin on anyone - it was always going to be a whitewash. An investigation needs to be undertaken by an independent body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastcowzer Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 Much as I detest Mr Warner & pretty much anything to do with FIFA, I'm not sure what continuing the so-called investigation would achieve, if he were to be found guilty what sanctions could be taken, as he is no-longer part of the FIFA organisation? If there is a whiff of criminal activity shouldn't the police be investigating? If the investigations had been allowed to continue, think of all the 'essaitch-one tee' that would hit the fan and could reveal how many others would be involved, i.e. the Concacaf countries involved Its a plain and simple Blatter-style 'whitewash' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 Blatter promised 'total transparency', this was his first opportunity to prove that he was serious and look at the result, a joke once again !!! A proper (independent) investigation into all the corruption charges is the only way forward, anything less is a cop out ! Well, I'm sure that there would be plenty of scope to investigate Sepp Blatter himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 If the investigations had been allowed to continue, think of all the 'essaitch-one tee' that would hit the fan and could reveal how many others would be involved, i.e. the Concacaf countries involved Its a plain and simple Blatter-style 'whitewash' I agree with you sentiments 100%. I just don't think FIFA investigating FIFA would throw up anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 21 June, 2011 Share Posted 21 June, 2011 Much as I detest Mr Warner & pretty much anything to do with FIFA, I'm not sure what continuing the so-called investigation would achieve, if he were to be found guilty what sanctions could be taken, as he is no-longer part of the FIFA organisation? If there is a whiff of criminal activity shouldn't the police be investigating? He is Minister of Transport and the Chairman of the biggest party in the Trinidad coalition government. Therefore he couldn't risk letting the investigation continue. I know. you couldn't make it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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