FIFA going down the drain

[papa_smurf]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13587449

Candidate for FIFA presidency, Mohamed Bin Hammam pulled out of the bid to not see ""dragged more in the mud" - looking a bit too late for that. Unless FIFA sorts this alleged corruption scandal, major sponsors will not want to be associated with it. If the ICC can sort it out why cant FIFA?

[Gerald]

Money talks,even for them.

[Tchocky]

Looong time coming

[Egan]

So Bin Hammam and Warner are now suspended pending a full inquiry but Blatter has been cleared of any and all charges of wrong doing by FIFA's 'ethics' committee and is free to run for the presidency which he will of course win uncontested because the only challenger was, wait for it, Bin Hammam. Turned out nice for Sepp once again, hasn't it?

I don't understand how he can possibly be cleared of anything before the inquiry has even begun. Surely, at the very, very least, he should have been suspended until the committee has finished it's investigation and the election should have been put off until after everything had been decided.

The only way to deal with FIFA in general and Blatter specifically is for the organization to be dismantled. It's now making the United Nation's Human Rights Commission look positively moral and upstanding. It's disgusting.

Mind you, it's not just FIFA itself that disgusts me. The whining about impropriety from various parts of the English FA would have been easier to listen to if they hadn't publicly tried to crucify and silence elements of the media when Panorama first broadcast their claims back before the bids in the winter. And Chuck Blazer, who seems to have been responsible for this current crisis, doesn't seem to have had much of a problem with them back when the US, like England, was bidding for the WC either.

Not one of them comes out of this looking very good.

[STEED]

I hope they go to hell but money is power and it talks.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Egan

So Bin Hammam and Warner are now suspended pending a full inquiry but Blatter has been cleared of any and all charges of wrong doing by FIFA's 'ethics' committee and is free to run for the presidency which he will of course win uncontested because the only challenger was, wait for it, Bin Hammam. Turned out nice for Sepp once again, hasn't it?

I don't understand how he can possibly be cleared of anything before the inquiry has even begun. Surely, at the very, very least, he should have been suspended until the committee has finished it's investigation and the election should have been put off until after everything had been decided.

The only way to deal with FIFA in general and Blatter specifically is for the organization to be dismantled. It's now making the United Nation's Human Rights Commission look positively moral and upstanding. It's disgusting.

Mind you, it's not just FIFA itself that disgusts me. The whining about impropriety from various parts of the English FA would have been easier to listen to if they hadn't publicly tried to crucify and silence elements of the media when Panorama first broadcast their claims back before the bids in the winter. And Chuck Blazer, who seems to have been responsible for this current crisis, doesn't seem to have had much of a problem with them back when the US, like England, was bidding for the WC either.

Not one of them comes out of this looking very good.

Pretty much agree with the above......this organisation has absolutely no credibility at all

[Egan]

Do you know, back in either February or March, at the FIFA congress two points of discussion were bumped down the list to the bottom where they would only be brought up if there was time. Do you know what the two points were? The corruption allegations pertaining to the World Cup bidding process and whether goal line technology should be embraced. Do you know what they were bumped to make room for? This is a cracker: Whether snoods should be banned in football.

How do you deal with an organization which, as part of it's demands for allowing 'it's' world cup to be played in a country demand tax exempt status in perpetuity and that none of their employees or their employees employees will have to obtain a visa, and threaten to suspend any association if that associations national government 'interfere' in it's business whilst turning a blind eye to somewhere like South Korea who voted for Russia in the last bid because the South Korean government want to foster closer trade links to Russia, and are so flagrantly arrogant and -allegedly - corrupt that they kick any discussion of the subject out of their meetings and dare to criticizes countries for having a free media that report upon it? And....goodness I need to take a deep breath..lol.

I love football, I really do. But this is something else. If the EU has any balls what so ever they will simply start massive legal proceedings and get as many of these sods locked up as possible. FIFA might not be a criminal organization but I'm not sure the people running it aren't.

[papa_smurf]

Sepp Blatter has insisted that Fifa is not in crisis,

He is either in denial, or knows something that could ruin hie re-election chances.

[Egan]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

He is either in denial, or knows something that could ruin hie re-election chances.

Well, Warner is threatening to unleash a 'tsunami' which should be good fun. Nothing like people implicating themselves in order to implicate others.

His entire attitude at the press conference was amazing. A BBC correspondent on 5Live was claiming that several of the questions were from plants. Given the way he responded to anyone that tried to ask him even slightly difficult questions I can well believe it.

I wish he'd stop using the word 'family' to describe FIFA. It makes them sound more like the Mafia than they do already!

[Bakkels]

[Jimbuna]

Watched the press conference on Sky...does the arrogance of the man have any boundaries?

[Egan]

Sepp wins re-election! Football is saved once again!

The Argentinian Vice -president (one of Blatter's boys, remember,) calls the Allegations from England and the English media lies and claimis he would have voted for the English bid if 'they had given the Falkland Islands back'.

Good grief.

[Wolfehunter]

Originally Posted by papa_smurf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13587449

Candidate for FIFA presidency, Mohamed Bin Hammam pulled out of the bid to not see ""dragged more in the mud" - looking a bit too late for that. Unless FIFA sorts this alleged corruption scandal, major sponsors will not want to be associated with it. If the ICC can sort it out why cant FIFA?

Fifa has been corrupt for a very long time. This isn't new information. They just don't want it to get out much. That the biggest business might not invest there billions into future games. That means no paycheck for the criminals running it.