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quote:The unofficial reason that Qatar alighted upon PSG lies in the already close links between the two countries and a much-discussed lunch between the then French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, Uefa's president Michel Platini and Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who has since succeeded his father, Hamad, as the Qatar's emir. "I totally swear that giving my son a job and having my president as a paid lackey had nothing to do with my otherwise completely inexplicable decision." from: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/apr/03/psg-world-cup-football-tv-rights-qatar 
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Can we just get the guy who wrote The Pentagon Wars to do a 2-hour HBO drama about FIFA.
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Bacon of the Sea posted:I've heard anecdotally that there's been a couple of people with near zero sports experience from the UAE who've been enrolled on SFA coaching courses, which were favoured over FA ones because they bloodied Mourinho. Or they could just copy Gaddafi and have their kids put into the team
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Apr 5, 2014 03:14
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How the gently caress are so many of the people still in position of power?
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Apr 5, 2014 04:52
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Ewar Woowar posted:How the gently caress are so many of the people still in position of power? Because they keep creating the positions of power and they buy all the votes to keep them there
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Ewar Woowar posted:How the gently caress are so many of the people still in position of power? Because Tajikistan and England have equal voting power on who is the next president of FIFA.
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Apr 5, 2014 06:27
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Byolante posted:Because Tajikistan and England have equal voting power on who is the next president of FIFA. Agreed, voting power should be proportional to population so Bangladesh have three times the voting power of England.
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Apr 5, 2014 10:36
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The Mash posted:Agreed, voting power should be proportional to population so Bangladesh have three times the voting power of England. Just use the FIFA rankings
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I would say that Europe should have the most votes, South America the 2nd, Asia the 3rd, Africa the 4th and North America last but they're all as corrupt as each other. Its just cheaper to bribe the smaller nations than say, the Italian FA.
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serious gaylord posted:I would say that Europe should have the most votes, South America the 2nd, Asia the 3rd, Africa the 4th and North America last but they're all as corrupt as each other. Its just cheaper to bribe the smaller nations than say, the Italian FA. Doesn't Oceania get a pity vote? 
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Kurtofan posted:Doesn't Oceania get a pity vote? You get to play a 2 legged knockout tie against South America's 5th place for a shot at a vote!
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Apr 5, 2014 11:01
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serious gaylord posted:I would say that Europe should have the most votes, South America the 2nd, Asia the 3rd, Africa the 4th and North America last but they're all as corrupt as each other. Its just cheaper to bribe the smaller nations than say, the Italian FA. Yeah, even if Europe had more votes that would just mean we'd have Platini's particular brand of corruption rather than Jack Warner's, who really epitomized the 'round up 70 micronations to make a FIFA voting block' style.
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What happened to that guy from ages ago who said he was going for the top fifa job and actually looked like he was good for the role? Has blatter murdered him?
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stickyfngrdboy posted:What happened to that guy from ages ago who said he was going for the top fifa job and actually looked like he was good for the role? Has blatter murdered him? He never had a chance once Sepp started openly musing about possibly running again. He might as well just appoint himself President-for-life at this point instead of promising, every election, that it will be his last one and then just running again anyway.
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Kurtofan posted:Just use the FIFA rankings I'm not sure giving American Samoa 197 votes is a good idea.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:What happened to that guy from ages ago who said he was going for the top fifa job and actually looked like he was good for the role? Has blatter murdered him? iirc he was banned for life. something to do with him being corrupt.
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Peanut President posted:I'm not sure giving American Samoa 197 votes is a good idea. Why not? They are truly impartial.
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Apr 5, 2014 21:21
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Maybe their shouldn't be an election and FIFA should be run like the business it is? Or let the fans vote
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CareyB posted:Or let the fans vote
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CareyB posted:Maybe their shouldn't be an election and FIFA should be run like the business it is? Danny Dyers Most Dangerous Cup Knockout Competitions
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Peanut President posted:I'm not sure giving American Samoa 197 votes is a good idea. Surely a country with an official third gender will be able to understand neutrality and impartiality
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Bogan Krkic posted:Surely a country with an official third gender will be able to understand neutrality and impartiality
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Mercaptopropyl posted:iirc he was banned for life. something to do with him being corrupt. no, that was bin hammam. he might be thinking of champagne, if ages ago is months ago.
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Kurtofan posted:Doesn't Oceania get a pity vote? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Dempsey Shortly after Oceania were awarded a far easier route into the world cup...
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Bogan Krkic posted:Surely a country with an official third gender will be able to understand neutrality and impartiality Why do you assume the third gender is neutral? Seems kinda sexist.
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stickyfngrdboy posted:What happened to that guy from ages ago who said he was going for the top fifa job and actually looked like he was good for the role? Has blatter murdered him? Jerome Champagne, he announced he would run for FIFA president in january this year and the election is next year. He's still around.
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Jerome Champagne's name reminded me that there is a man named Tokyo Sexwale and I did a lol irl
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I can't believe that was only in January it feels like a lot longer, to me.
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Carroll goes down like a sack of poo poo every time he is touched. Motherfucker, you are 6'4
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TwoDogs1Cup posted:Carroll goes down like a sack of poo poo every time he is touched. Motherfucker, you are 6'4 More disgraceful politicking from whoever.
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10-year-old daughter of World Cup official had £2m put into account
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http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/news-display/refs-miked-up-for-hyundai-a-league-finals/89841 FIFA sec gen sent a letter saying DO NOT loving DO THIS because fifa are cunts
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You really should have quoted the best part quote:The money transfer to Mr Teixeira’s daughter, whose account is registered in Rio, is thought to have been made by Sandro Rosell. Mr Teixeira has had a long-standing relationship involving a number of reported business deals with Mr Rosell, who was previously head of Nike Brazil and until early this year was President of Barcelona Football Club.
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Jose posted:You really should have quoted the best part Suddenly the Neymar transfer makes more sense.
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Troy Queef posted:Suddenly the Neymar transfer makes more sense. didn't realize he had connections to nike Brazil at all
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Troy Queef posted:Suddenly the Neymar transfer makes more sense. Més Que un Taste
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So Qatar is cancelling four of the dozen stadiums they planned on building. Must be nice to be able to change their plans once the bid is secure! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-20/qatar-cuts-number-of-world-cup-soccer-stadiums-amid-rising-costs.html
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Suppose it makes sense when you have a country of 2,000,000 people and a projected stadium capacity of 600,000. Maybe some of the slaves working the construction will get a break
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esperantinc posted:So Qatar is cancelling four of the dozen stadiums they planned on building. Must be nice to be able to change their plans once the bid is secure! Good to see that the Qatari World Cup continues to drift as far away from what their actual bid promised as much as humanly possible. We're still on the floating air conditioners though, right?
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