Top FIFA Officials arrested

Breaking news as I'm going to sleep, but it's big names:

Jack Warner, former FIFA VP
Jeffrey Webb, VP of FIFA Executive Committee
Eugenio Figueredo, VP of FIFA Executive Committee

Likely more to come, but those three are the first named.

Being extradited to the US where they will face Federal Corruption charges.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/27/sp...ges-in-us.html

https://twitter.com/samborden/status/603423018459664384

https://twitter.com/samborden/status/603414950309158912

Those trainers, hoody and jeans dress to arrest ffs.....

About bloody time.

The whole world knows they're dodgy as £#%&! and they've been getting away with it for 20 years.

The charges include wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering

Please, please, please get Blatter as well. Hopefully this will completely £#%&! up his re-election.

Took there time as this has been going on for years(decades)and it's then taken a country that's hardly interested in the game to do it
That corrupt @#%&! slack bladder with still get elected on Friday tho:shakehead:

Faustino Asprilla a surprise candidate for the FIFA leader job

Well I'm shocked, who would ever have suspected FIFA of being corrupt

be interesting to see if anything comes out about Russia and Qatar.

Originally Posted by believe

be interesting to see if anything comes out about Russia and Qatar.

suggestions are it's older stuff

Originally Posted by redhegemony

suggestions are it's older stuff

I'm sure they stopped all their dodgy activities years ago in fairness. No reason to doubt the bidding processes.

Guardian live blogging it.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...n-charges-live

https://twitter.com/MarinaHyde/status/603441606583263232

'tis true. Fair play to them for steaming in with very few £#%&!s there, smashing work.

I don't think the timing of this (just before the election) is a co-incidence.

Now all we need is for one of the arrested to be bang-to-rights guilty so he decides to plea bargain & rat out all of the others and the whole £#%&!ing lot get pinched.

Didn't Jack Warner sell all World Cup tickets to one of his own companies then flog them on at a huge mark up once? He needs sending down

E:60 Top reds (It's on YouTube and worth the watch) know who the real people protecting Blatter are.

Bin Hammam and the Qatari family. Until then it'll continue as normal with a load of nobodies thrown under the bus..

Blatter will fall or meet a murky death from a russian hit squad. I wonder if he'll still go ahead with the elections on Friday

Originally Posted by HERTS_RED

Blatter will fall or meet a murky death from a russian hit squad. I wonder if he'll still go ahead with the elections on Friday

The Qatari's are the ones to watch, he's been in bed with senior officials from the government for years (see the E:60 doc for more) and you take the WC off them then things will get really messy (literally). It's going to be fascinating to see how this all unfolds.

Here's hoping the Yanks and the Swiss are working together rather than independently.

Did FIFA take down the site?

First thing I thought too.

@#%&!s.

Originally Posted by forwardirektion

Did FIFA take down the site?

My first thoughts too.

Anyway that press conference was embarrassing, FIFA are trying to take credit for this investigation FFS.

Basically Blatter knows he can't be got so he's selling out those who can.