More dirt on FIFA...

[Gorgiesaint]

Interesting read about Sepp Blatter and what may lie in store for him over the next year or so. Let's hope the lawyers don't delay its release too long.

 

http://www.transparencyinsport.org/Sepp_Blatter_speaks_with_forked_tongue/sepp_blatter_speaks_with_forked_tongue(page1).html

[alpine_saint]

Will only be replaced by some other bent tw*t.

 

I personally reckon its time for a breakaway from FIFA.

[Gingeletiss]

Insightfull read, I only wish all countrys would investigate those slimeballs, but most are getting brown envelopes.

[positivepete]

It will not be long before the big European clubs form their own league and turn their back on international football. I give it 3 to 5 years, perhaps after the next world cup. There is no way the European clubs will let their players play in Qatar.

[Smirking_Saint]

Qatar will happen, it shouldn't but it will.

 

The fact that it was probably fuelled by the wrong reasons and was in all honesty a very stupid choice for a footballing venue means little to nothing now that it is done and things are in motion.

 

As for FIFA I hope this info comes out sooner rather than later, mainly because they are A. Obviously corrupt and B. IMO losing touch and control over the footballing bodies that run their own domestic games.

 

You can see this by just looking at the way Scudamore attempts to ride roughshod over everything. Football needs a shakeup IMO, FIFA needs to become fair and a proper governing body again and IMO the premiership and FL need to be brought inline and work together as one instead of two dissinterested entities.

[stevegrant]

That happened years ago with the champions league. Their fans won't want it. It should never be the main competition. Domestic football is brilliant, it needs the rivalry and away support.

It's only really England and Germany where you get big away support. In Spain in particular, there's hardly ever away fans at games, although I suspect a lot of that is because the league are really **** at the basic organisational things such as letting people know what day and time the games are kicking off. If you think it's annoying having 2 months' notice that a game's been moved to the Saturday evening, try not knowing whether your game will take place Saturday night, Sunday afternoon, Sunday night or Monday night until 10 days before the game.

[Doctoroncall]

FIFA has been a standard bearer for corruption for decades. It will only change when someone in football grows a pair of balls and launches a break away. Otherwise some other greedy f ucker wants in on the money and takes over from Blatter on the back of transparency and change.

[alpine_saint]

Havelange started the corruption, and handed it over to his son-in-law, Blatter.

 

Expect some new act of nepotistic bullsh*t when Blatter steps down.

[pap]

Will only be replaced by some other bent tw*t.

 

I personally reckon its time for a breakaway from FIFA.

 

FIFA has been a standard bearer for corruption for decades. It will only change when someone in football grows a pair of balls and launches a break away. Otherwise some other greedy f ucker wants in on the money and takes over from Blatter on the back of transparency and change.

 

Agree with the sentiments, chaps. Perhaps I'm guilty of being a little Englander here, but it sickens me to see a game that our fellow countrymen invented being turned into a corrupt cash cow for people who already have plenty of money in the first place. Recent events have been staggering. It is as if they are not even trying to hide it. Who honestly believes that either Russia or Qatar were handed the World Cups based on their suitability for the job? Russia has terrible problems with racism - wouldn't be surprised if there were monkey chants at every game. And apart from the plush enclaves that they've used effective slave labour to create, Qatar is just one big desert with a population that Merseyside can compete with in the population stakes.

 

I would love to see a breakaway, but if it were to happen, I'd like to see them implement some of the tech that FIFA has been wringing its hands over. England seems to be the unluckiest side in the world at major tournaments. Referees who cannot see stocky Argies punch a ball through the air, or disallow goals for pushing, who'll send our players off for sneezing yet are seemingly incapable of detecting the antics of some of our opponents. Or goal-line technology.

 

Now, I don't know whether I buy into this or not, but there are some that believe that FIFA knows who is going to win a major tournament before it begins. I know we all like to believe in the sanctity of the game, but look at who controls it. I wouldn't put it past them.

 

If there is a breakaway, it has to be credible and fair - the very opposite of what FIFA are at the moment.

[saintscottofthenortham]

That happened years ago with the champions league. Their fans won't want it. It should never be the main competition. Domestic football is brilliant, it needs the rivalry and away support. Plus in a proper European league you'd suddenly have traditionally successful clubs like Lyon, Milan and Bayern never winning anything.

 

Not convinced international football will last though. Already have foreign managers and players eligible for different nations increasingly. Cultures will mix more and you'll start to wonder what you're supporting.

 

I have already questioned what I was supporting, and genuinely don't hive a f*ck about England. I lost touch with it long ago. I saw the result the other night and felt the same way as I did when I saw any other result that night, nothing.