Top FIFA Officials arrested

Has Gill resigned then?

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/604339944199438336

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Originally Posted by Pop

2018 World Cup line-up

Group A
Russia
Cameroon
Australia
Iran

Group B
Brazil
Ethiopia
Afghanistan
New Zealand

Group C
Japan
Ghana
Peru
North Korea

Group D
Chile
Libya
Israel
Trinidad & Tobago

Group E
Argentina
Egypt
Indonesia
Togo

Group F
Uruguay
Turkey
Thailand
Morocco

Group G
Venezueala
South Africa
Iraq
Zimbabwe

Group H
Bolivia
Saudi Arabia
India
Manchester City

I would have thought the Faroe Islands would have got through this time.

Originally Posted by Clarkie

Has Gill resigned then?

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/604339944199438336

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Globally despised dictator meets benevolent President of poor African country.



The FIFA President voting form has been released:

Originally Posted by Pop

2018 World Cup line-up


Group H
Bolivia
Saudi Arabia
India
Manchester City

Martin Samuel has just likened Blatter to Jimmy Saville

Originally Posted by saffers

This sort of attitude was around the last time an Englishman was in charge of FIFA and resulted in 'tinport 3rd world nations' being freezed out of the game.

Prince Ali abwaabwa as you so charmingly put has the major western nations behind him. Which probably means he will £#%&! over the football associations that need the most support(poor countries in Africa and Asia).

Yep. As bent as FIFA clearly are, it's the arrogance and insularity of the Europeans that facilitates these 'tin pot' countries sticking together to make sure that Europe doesn't take control of the game on the world stage. People have long memories. It was English spite and disregard for inclusiveness and development of the world game that cost them the Fifa presidency in the first place.

Originally Posted by S/Side.Red

Yep. As bent as FIFA clearly are, it's the arrogance and insularity of the Europeans that facilitates these 'tin pot' countries sticking together to make sure that Europe doesn't take control of the game on the world stage. People have long memories. It was English spite and disregard for inclusiveness and development of the world game that cost them the Fifa presidency in the first place.

Didn't the fa's of all the home nations initially tell all the other european countries to £#%&! off and so they went and formed fifa anyway?

https://twitter.com/McKenzieCNN/status/604168458050248705

These shenanigans have made me find a new respect for blatman. He is £#%&!ing untouchable, everyone speaking out against him yet wins another term. Teflon don.

Originally Posted by angrydimaria

https://twitter.com/McKenzieCNN/stat...68458050248705

it is genuinely impressive how blatter et al. have managed to run a global sporting institution on a third world business model for many years. of course there have been some egregious abuses of power but it's probably no more galling than the standard western capitalist schema and the world of 'gentlemen's handshakes' that #@&%!s like greg dyke are getting so precious about.

no wonder american imperialist dogma has reared its head. once blatter's gone, whether it's sooner or later, FIFA will turn into an all-out corporate @#%&!opoly with all manner of prime #@&%!s filling their pockets. the whole enterprise will make the likes of NFL, golden boy etc look like village fetes.

Originally Posted by taff

it is genuinely impressive how blatter et al. have managed to run a global sporting institution on a third world business model for many years. of course there have been some egregious abuses of power but it's probably no more galling than the standard western capitalist schema and the world of 'gentlemen's handshakes' that #@&%!s like greg dyke are getting so precious about.

no wonder american imperialist dogma has reared its head. once blatter's gone, whether it's sooner or later, FIFA will turn into an all-out corporate @#%&!opoly with all manner of prime #@&%!s filling their pockets. the whole enterprise will make the likes of NFL, golden boy etc look like village fetes.

Sorry mate, but that's absolute tripe. The Americans have done what no one else was either able or willing to do. Hate them all you like, but let's stick to the now and the known rather than some dark imagined future where they will once again be deserving of your bile. This is not £#%&!ing minority report.

This threads more entertaining than Minority Report thats for sure

Oh, and Blattoh will be on charges by the end of June. Get him in your dead pools, he wont see out 2015

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Anyway, did David Gill resign as he said he would?

Was wondering how Gill would backtrack into staying in the role, but no, he's £#%&!ed them off

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32942569

hes just said FIFA helped to cure ebola

presser on now

£#%&!ing hell. move along, nothing to see here

£#%&!ing Blatter :shakehead:

Fair play Safe Hands

it is bizarre that blatter is still getting away with heading the whole fifa money laundering operation

but at the same time he does have a point doesn't he? these charges are timed to coincide with the election just as the last time this all blew up coincided with the election in 2011. and England did lose out to russia, the yanks did lose out to qatar, the nth american federation thingy still voted for blatter, and the yanks did support blather's main rival. and as for the sponsors 'expressing concern'? do me a £#%&!ing favour, they're the main culprits because they bankroll it ffs