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If this farce doesn't force the creation of a new body to run football instead of FIFA then nothing will. Football is dead.
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You know, the real solution to this is for us to find another sport to watch.
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Nov 13, 2014 11:07
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They're probably just as corrupt
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Nov 13, 2014 11:07
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Jose posted:They're probably just as corrupt Or would be if they got the same level of influence as Football has on the world population.
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Nov 13, 2014 11:11
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ukle posted:If this farce doesn't force the creation of a new body to run football instead of FIFA then nothing will. In it's actual report they've released the Australian and English bids get critised for 50k dinners. The Qatar bid's $1.8m African federation summit is mentioned but waved away "as it is unclear how this would affect bidding" and bin hammans (qatar's self described biggest asset) bribes and successful effort to get an exco member to appeal a ban so the oceana federation couldn't vote for qatar's rivals is fine because he wasn't part of the official bid team.
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Nov 13, 2014 11:14
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Let's just get a 4/5/6 nations tournament going like the rugby.
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Nov 13, 2014 11:21
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quote:Back to Bin Hammam, the report does say that he made payments to Reynald Temarii, OFC President and Fifa Executive Committee member.
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Nov 13, 2014 11:41
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Russia's dog ate its homework.
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Nov 13, 2014 11:52
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvMPXwqTMto
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Nov 13, 2014 11:54
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Not only did Russia fail to show its emails, it actually blamed Google for not being able to access them. loving capitalist yankees. Good lord, this whole thing is preposterous.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:13
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It's not that Fifa are absolutely shamelessly corrupt, its how blatant they are with it.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:15
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Skinty McEdger posted:It's not that Fifa are absolutely shamelessly corrupt, its how blatant they are with it. Actually, it's the fact that they're going to get away with it.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:16
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David Conn posted:Reading Fifa report, afraid the English FA is very tainted. Spent £21m, including £3m public money, partly on currying Jack Warner's favour. Can't say I disagree with this though
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Nov 13, 2014 12:18
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Jose posted:Can't say I disagree with this though What does 21 million buy these days, because I can't think of a single positive thing Warner said about the England bid.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:23
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It buys a hell of a lot of fun for the bid team too, hanging out in the Caribbean at £35k parties all the time.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:26
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"Look, we can take all this money and go to Trinidad and Tobago and drink cocktails out of coconuts and hang out by a bunch of guys playing steel drums and eat just the tastiest lobsters that have ever been cooked, or we can take this money to Uzbekistan."
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Nov 13, 2014 12:28
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The Guardian are running a live blog for anyone who doesn't fancy reading the report themselves http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2014/nov/13/fifa-world-cup-ethics-committee-report-2018-2022-live-reaction
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Nov 13, 2014 12:34
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It looks like the UK government are going to instruct the SFA to start criminal proceedings. This will most likely get the FA banned from Fifa events due to governmental influences.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:45
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Hahahaha, some of the most obvious bungs are discarded because they were used to get presidential votes and not World Cup votes and so they don't count.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:48
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The FA appear to be the only association moronic enough to actually give FIFA anything they wanted
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Nov 13, 2014 12:51
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tbh I don't think England will be banned from international competitions. Not even fifa can be that stupid (i think)
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Nov 13, 2014 12:51
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 Even if this report were 100% accurate and there was no corruption in the Qatar bid, all that would prove is that the FIFA ExCo are absolutely terrible at their jobs and should all be sacked anyway for gross negligence and incompetence, not to mention complicity in gross human rights violations.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:52
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serious gaylord posted:It looks like the UK government are going to instruct the SFA to start criminal proceedings. Good. I reckon if you asked the English public whether they'd rather see England's best lawyers going after FIFA or England's best footballers dicking about for the national team, they'd choose the first option.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:53
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Jose posted:The FA appear to be the only association moronic enough to actually give FIFA anything they wanted The report shows pretty clearly how to get a world cup: - bribe in cash, not gifts - 'rent' computers - 'forget' all your gmail password - use people who aren't directly employed by a footballing organisation to approach voting members
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Nov 13, 2014 12:54
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The Nepalese have never been to the World Cup so it doesn't matter. As for the North Koreans, they're just happy to be there.
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Nov 13, 2014 12:54
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advanced statsman posted:The Nepalese have never been to the World Cup so it doesn't matter. As for the North Koreans, they're just happy to be there. So happy that their employers safeguard their passports for them so that they don't accidentally leave. 
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Nov 13, 2014 12:56
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:The report shows pretty clearly how to get a world cup: I meant for the investigation leading to this report but at least FIFA have released a helpful guide for future bids
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Nov 13, 2014 12:58
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It's like a point by point of how the English FA are a bunch of mugs.
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Nov 13, 2014 13:00
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Pissflaps posted:You know, the real solution to this is for us to find another sport to watch.
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Nov 13, 2014 13:10
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Apparently Michael Garcia has made a statementquote:The farce escalates. Garcia statement talks of "numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts and conclusions" link
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Nov 13, 2014 13:12
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quote:Michael Garcia says Eckert’s decision “contains numerous materially incomplete and erroneous representations of the facts. I intend to appeal this decision to the FIFA Appeal Committee.” Michael Garcia being the guy who actually headed and wrote the investigation.
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Nov 13, 2014 13:13
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Mark my words this is the start of Football War II
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Nov 13, 2014 13:27
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Can I get a link to the article with the Garcia quote.
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Nov 13, 2014 13:30
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hahaha only FIFA could clear an obviously corrupt world cup bid and accuse the people going "hey, that's not right!" as being corrupt in some way themselves still not as bad as the ICC though
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Nov 13, 2014 13:39
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White Noise Marine posted:Can I get a link to the article with the Garcia quote. only on twitter and the guardian's live blog so far: http://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2014/nov/13/fifa-world-cup-ethics-committee-report-2018-2022-live-reaction Actually the story just went up: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/13/farce-fifa-michael-garcia-erroneous-ethics-report greazeball fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Nov 13, 2014 13:40
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quote:Some real giants of world football represented on Fifa's appeals committee - from Guam to Comoros via the Faroe Islands
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Nov 13, 2014 13:45
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Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa:quote:“The AFC has always stood by Qatar as we defend their right to host the 2022 World Cup, and this finding reaffirms our belief and support for the country. We would now be able to move on and work with Qatar to ensure that we deliver the best World Cup that Asia can offer. It's like a parody.
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Nov 13, 2014 13:50
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In twenty years we'll have a lot of fun explaining to our kids why England play Football League while most of the rest of the world play Football Union
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Nov 13, 2014 13:55
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Hans-Joachim Eckert posted:I cannot comment, I don't know why he has said this, I need to speak to him Just gets more and more ridiculous
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