Fifa are cunts

[WhyAlwaysMe?]

According to Panorama..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011kq71/Panorama_Fifa_Footballs_Shame/

Anyone see this? iPlayer is only available in the UK unfortunately..

 

[Marquis]

Can we have it in point form for those outside the UK?

Or should I just assume it is the usual FIFA bullshit.

 

[WhyAlwaysMe?]

Corruption.

 

[jon545660]

But its ok because they are going to investigate themselves to see if they are corrupt. I'm sure we'll all be waiting with bated breath.

 

[RolandG]

We know that FIFA corrupt and they know it too.

Nothing's changed and won't until Blatter and Platini are gone.

 

[Frogfish]

Don't FIFA have an agreement with the Swiss Govt (as part of their decision to base themselves there) that they can't be investigated or prosecuted for corruption within that country ?

Disgusting if true.

 

[jexykrodic]

No doubt that Blatter is ruthless, he's stitched up his opponent for the forthcoming election.

I expect the outcome will be no action due to insufficient evidence and the whole circus will rumble on.

A body investigating itself is never satisfactory.

 

[Rosco]

[quote author=Frogfish link=topic=45492.msg1338941#msg1338941 date=1306346382]
Don't FIFA have an agreement with the Swiss Govt (as part of their decision to base themselves there) that they can't be investigated or prosecuted for corruption within that country ?

Disgusting if true.
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Yes.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

Why don't the FA withdraw England from all international competitions to start with? Even if no one cares, at least they can claim they're the 'golden generation' are the best until the USA or Hungary come along.

But seriously, I assume there'll be financial implications and what not from withdrawing clubs from fifa regulated stuff, but what about the national team?

 

[Oncy]

I think its great that the FA have refused to vote. I hate the FA but to be asked to vote between the corrupt megolamaniac in charge or the lying currupt bribe taking fucker in waiting is the hobsonest of choices.
Fuck FIFA the shitbags.
Qatar for fuck sakes!!!

 

[Squiggles]

[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=45492.msg1339012#msg1339012 date=1306356850]
I think its great that the FA have refused to vote. I hate the FA but to be asked to vote between the corrupt megolamaniac in charge or the lying currupt bribe taking fucker in waiting is the hobsonest of choices.
Fuck FIFA the shitbags.
Qatar for fuck sakes!!!
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Agreed.

 

[Spionkop69]

[quote author=RolandG link=topic=45492.msg1338923#msg1338923 date=1306342816]
We know that FIFA corrupt and they know it too.

Nothing's changed and won't until Blatter and Platini are gone.
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Its not just Blatter and Napoleon. The likes of Warner need getting rid of too.

 

[Sunny]

FIFA are coming under more and more scrutiny and pressure. The Qatar geezer and Jack Warner have been trying to buy votes for Qatari dude and other FIFA bods have grassed them up big stylee. As well as that the Swiss government are investigating them for bribery and FIFA have to disclose information to them before the end of the year otherwise the Swiss will politely and neutrally ask them to move their organisation from their country. Bye bye corrupt tax haven

 

[Sunny]

FIFA are facing calls to abandon next week's presidential election after two of football's most powerful figures were accused of handing over up to £20,000 in bribes to officials.

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FIFA presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam and vice-president Jack Warner have both been charged with bribery in the most serious corruption crisis to hit the world governing body.

Damian Collins, the MP who named two other FIFA members in Parliament as allegedly receiving bribes from Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid, said FIFA should now abandon the election, saying: "If Bin Hammam is suspended it would be unacceptable for the election to simply become a shoo-in for Sepp Blatter. There must be a new election with new candidates allowed to come forward."

He added: "FIFA need to have a proper independent investigation and the timetable does not allow this to happen before next week."

Bin Hammam and Warner will face FIFA's ethics committee on Sunday where they will face long bans if the allegations - made by fellow executive committee member Chuck Blazer - are proved. Both have denied any wrongdoing.

Blatter and Bin Hammam are due to stand in the presidential election on Wednesday and the Qatari has declared the charge is a tactic by Blatter in an attempt to boost his chances.

Blazer, an American who is the general secretary of the CONCACAF federation of which Warner is president, has alleged that the violations of FIFA's code of ethics during a meeting organised by Bin Hammam and Warner for Caribbean Football Union associations in Trinidad two weeks ago.

Two CFU officials, Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester, have also been charged. Minguell is assistant to the CFU's general secretary and Sylvester is the organisation's events co-ordinator.

 

[Molbystwin]

The individual football federations surely have to step in and change this, how on earth can Blatter claim to have any credibility left after this latest fiasco? Even though the accusations are against Bin Hamman all of this corruption has been going on under the nose of Blatter in his role as president.
It really is shameful that such people are allowed to be in charge of a game which means so much to people allover the world.

The pathetic nature of our own FA is legendary but their decision not to vote between the 2 crooked lying cunts on offer was admirable, the other members of the electorate should do the same and insist that blatter stands down. What is truly terrifying is that the premier league representative on the FA wanted to vote for Bin Hamman, currying favour with the arabs paymasters no doubt. There must be someone who isn't just in it for the money surely!

 

[Pesam]

The FA are feeble, they should withdraw from FIFA and encourage the other FA's to meet to discuss a new organisation based in London. Proper elections, total transparency, a mximum term of 8 years for any president etc, etc.

Maybe they could install the English FA as ombudsmen overseeing the organisation but having no voting rights. It would stop the current fiasco in which the most powerful executives are from footballing-superpowers such as Paraguay, Trinidad and Qatar!

FIFA are cunts and the FA are inadequate cunts for not making a move to stop this nonsense.

 

[Pesam]

BBC reporting that FIFA are opening ethics proceedings againt Sepp Blatter! Hopefully FIFA are imploding.

 

[Pesam]

This is BIG news.............

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13574338.stm

Fifa president Sepp Blatter under investigation
Page last updated at 09:57 GMT, Friday, 27 May 2011 10:57 UK
E-mail this to a friendPrintable version Blatter is bidding for a fourth presidential term at Fifa Fifa has opened ethics proceedings against its president, Sepp Blatter.

The action follows a charge by Mohamed Bin Hammam, his rival in next week's presidency election, that Blatter knew about alleged cash payments.

Bin Hammam and vice-president Jack Warner will also be at Sunday's hearing to answer charges of bribery.

Blatter issued a statement saying: "I cannot comment on the proceedings that have been opened against me. The facts will speak for themselves."

The ethics committee are bound by their rules to investigate any complaint by an executive committee member under article 16 of the ethics code.

Bin Hammam and Warner face allegations from executive committee member Chuck Blazer that they offered bribes at a meeting of the Caribbean Football Union on 10/11 May.

A file of evidence claims bundles of cash of up to $40,000 were handed over to members of the CFU at the meeting in Trinidad.

In turn, Bin Hammam is effectively claiming Blatter was aware of some wrongdoing but did not report it, in itself a breach of the code.

The committee, chaired by Namibian judge Petrus Damaseb, will also be under pressure to decide whether Blatter will face any charges or not.

BBC sports editor David Bond said: "Fifa is now an organisation completely at war. They cannot possibly continue in this way and many people will say they should suspend the presidential election.

"Under Fifa's ethics code, they are duty bound, if a member of the executive committee makes a complaint to the ethics committee, to then investigate it.

"So, it may be that the allegations against Blatter don't come to much, and the allegations against Bin Hammam and Warner could be far more serious. Ultimately it seems the evidence against Blatter is only Bin Hammam's word against his.

"It is very difficult to predict exactly what will happen next, but it's hard to see this as anything other than a watershed moment for Fifa.

"It feels like at last the dam is breaking around them. It is a bit like the scene at the end of Reservoir Dogs when everyone has a gun pointed at each other's heads."

Meanwhile, the FA is due to send to Fifa the report they commissioned by barrister James Dingemans QC into claims by their ex-chairman, Lord Triesman, that Warner and three other executive committee members made improper requests during England's 2018 World Cup bid.

It is understood that only the claims against Warner have been corroborated by witnesses.

The claim that Warner asked for financial help to build an education centre has been backed up by Premier League chairman Sir Dave Richards, while Dingemans' file also includes an email from Warner to Triesman asking the FA to pay for Haiti's World Cup TV rights.

 

[themn]

The fuckers are turning on each other.

 

[themn]

@MirrorDarren: Sepp Blatter has balls THIS big. "You cannot question me. I am the FIFA president."

What a complete and utter tool.

 

[SaintGeorge67]

He's turning into Nicolae Ceausescu.

Hopefully his "trial" will be similarly entertaining.

 

[Sunny]

I think the local FAs need to think seriously about moving away from FIFA. Who the fuck are they anyway ? A bunch of fat greedy old men who are growing rich without seemingly doing fuck all other than sucking the life and soul out of the world's most popular game. The absolute cunts. I fucking hate them with a passion.

 

[The Nomad]

Blatter called the most boring press conference ever... I especially liked the way he said "fifa.com link... L.I.N.K... link"

Do away with all of them and start again... they are ALL corrupt, even that Blazer bloke who blew the whistle.

 

[FoxForceFive]

I've just downloaded the new FIFA to my PC but it won't work. It keeps saying that it's corrupt.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Quality tweeting from Tony Barrett:

@empireofthekop
Empire of the Kop
Dear @McDonalds Stop sponsoring that dictatorship called @FIFA run by @SeppBlatter #BlatterOut

@empireofthekop
Empire of the Kop
Dear @CocaCola Stop sponsoring that dictatorship called @FIFA run by @SeppBlatter #BlatterOut

@TonyBarretTimes
Tony Barrett
Come on McDonald's & Coca Cola, do something ethical & use your sponsorship to oust Blatter. #mostnaivetweetever

 

[Holle]

[quote author=Sunny link=topic=45492.msg1340445#msg1340445 date=1306776442]
I think the local FAs need to think seriously about moving away from FIFA. Who the fuck are they anyway ? A bunch of fat greedy old men who are growing rich without seemingly doing fuck all other than sucking the life and soul out of the world's most popular game. The absolute cunts. I fucking hate them with a passion.
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I think the local FAs are pretty much in the same mould. At least ours are.

 

[themn]

@carolinecheese: AP reports Coca-Cola joins adidas in expressing concern over the FIFA scandal. Blatter might have to listen to FIFA sponsors...

 

[Athens]

I can imagine that cunt Blatter behind closed doors slapping people about and shouting he's above the law. He runs FIFA like the guv in the Shawshank Redemption only all those fuckers are in on it and none of them would crawl through a river of shit to get the word out.

 

[Vlads Quiff]

[quote author=themn link=topic=45492.msg1340479#msg1340479 date=1306781206]
@carolinecheese: AP reports Coca-Cola joins adidas in expressing concern over the FIFA scandal. Blatter might have to listen to FIFA sponsors...
[/quote]

Now that, might just start to have a positive effect.
Jack Warner warned of a "football Tsunami" and it was going to break on monday , I wonder if he is going to sing like a canary, as the old gangster films might have it...............

The Fifa vice-president Jack Warner has warned the football world to brace itself for a "football tsunami" in the lead-up to the Fifa presidential elections on Wednesday.

Speaking to the Trinidad Express ahead of the election, between current president Sepp Blatter and his former ally Mohamed bin Hammam, Warner said: "I tell you something, in the next couple days you will see a football tsunami that will hit Fifa and the world that will shock you.

"The time has come when I must stop playing dead so you'll see it, it's coming, trust me you'll see it by now and Monday. I have been here for 29 consecutive years and if the worst happen, the worst happen."

Warner, who on Sunday will face a Fifa ethics committee over allegations of offering bribes to members of the Caribbean Football Union in exchange for votes in the Fifa presidential elections, said that he was not worried about the latest round of allegations against him because he was "not guilty of a single iota of wrongdoing".

"I have lived three score and almost ten and my Jack hasn't been hanged as yet, why should it be hung now? By whom? The American Chuck Blazer? His American lawyer John Collins? Give me a break. I am not the faint-hearted you know ... Let them go ahead, I have no problem with that. But I'll tell you something, I will hold my head high to the very end because, I repeat here again, I am not guilty of a single iota of wrongdoing."

Warner also stated that he would not be "remotely bothered" if he were to lose his position as vice-president of football's governing body.

"If that is what it comes to so be it, you must never get too attached to anything, it clouds your judgment and therefore whatever happens, happens. I am not even remotely bothered. They can do what they want, it doesn't bother me."

It is not yet clear whether Blatter will be attending the Champions League final. The Fifa president's involvement in the crisis, and his appearance in front of Sunday's ethics committee, means he may avoid the match as he prepares to defend himself and the organisation's shattered credibility. He said: "I cannot comment on the proceedings that have been opened against me. The facts will speak for themselves."

Fifa appears willing to continue with the elections for its new president despite the mud-slinging and accusations of corruption have dogged the body. Several sponsors, including Adidas have raised concerns about the serious nature of the claims.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Warner knows where the bodies are buried alright, problem is he helped dig & fill them, so he may be somewhat reluctant to reveal all...