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Jose posted:http://www.marca.com/en/2014/11/13/en/football/international_football/1415881273.html Schizophrenic
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serious gaylord posted:We're all saying nothing will happen to fifa, but from the almost world wide laughter at this so called ethics report I actually think something may be done. If only to make it so Blatter cant step foot in any country that has an extradition treaty with the US to face his inevitable trial there. FIFA have shown that they couldn't be bothered to care about bad press. The big question is whether the full report will get released, and if criminal investigations will follow. Even then, there's a good chance that FIFA will hang a couple mid level officials out to dry (and probably give them a big pay off), and wait for the whole thing to blow over.
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Nov 13, 2014 17:38
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The rootless cosmopolitan money spinning frauds must be taken to task.
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On pain of a permaban I am not going to watch a single game of Qatar 2022. Feel free to quote me in 8 years time if I am not dead.
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serious gaylord posted:We're all saying nothing will happen to fifa, but from the almost world wide laughter at this so called ethics report I actually think something may be done. If only to make it so Blatter cant step foot in any country that has an extradition treaty with the US to face his inevitable trial there. Nothing will happen until major European nations (and England) tell FIFA to git tae gently caress
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Shame the Barclays British BPL is too tied in with middle eastern and russian oil money to disentangle itself from this system of fraud and lies.
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gently caress FIFA!
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Pissflaps posted:You know, the real solution to this is for us to find another sport to watch. Kronum
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Do not worry, an NFL team is coming to London. You can forget this frilly sport soon. The future is coming.
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If the FBI ends up bringing down Fifa yall can never make fun of us saying "soccer" again.
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African AIDS cum posted:Do not worry, an NFL team is coming to London. You can forget this frilly sport soon. The future is coming. EDIT: Not saying they are somehow worse than Fifa. Just to clear that up. Also, I love the NFL. voodoo dog fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Nov 13, 2014 |
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Wuntvor posted:Oh yes, the NFL, the league where players beat their wives, their children, have dog fights and murder people. But don't you dare smoke some weed! At least that stuff is publicized and not hidden or brushed aside.
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serious gaylord posted:We're all saying nothing will happen to fifa, but from the almost world wide laughter at this so called ethics report I actually think something may be done. If only to make it so Blatter cant step foot in any country that has an extradition treaty with the US to face his inevitable trial there. The head of the FA has already come out today to say Sepp is a great man and this doesn't reflect on him in any way shape or form. Even if Fifa's reputation gets tarnished even more he's like loving Teflon.
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Also LOL that the western nations' openness and freedom of the press made their relatively tiny infractions count against them. Our only hope now is if pressure mounts too high on the sponsors.
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I saw that there were 100 new posts in this thread and foolishly got my hopes up that it meant Qatar had been stripped how stupid of me to get my hopes up
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I've been laughing all day about this whole thing. I had to explain to colleagues, two of whom are foreigners and none of whom follow foot or sport at all, why this thing was funny and none of them understood any of it. the closest I got was 'are you talking about Bernie Ecclestone?'
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Bernie wishes he could be as bulletproof as Sepp. Maybe he should relocate to Switzerland.
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Jose posted:Qatar are paying North Korea for a load of Koreans to help build the city for the world cup
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Wuntvor posted:Oh yes, the NFL, the league where players beat their wives, their children, have dog fights and murder people. But don't you dare smoke some weed! Well yeah those are some of the good parts of the NFL but honestly there are cons to the sport too, like all the commercial breaks, I can't deal with those.
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The NFL is coming to Europe, with all the wife-beating, dog-fighting, murders and a new, exaggerated lad culture for the continent. Can't wait.
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Imagine mixing the NFL culture with Serbian football fans. Getting a big ol' boner just thinking about it.
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FIFA are running operations that are literally killing thousands of Nepali workers while receiving money from the Islamic State and North Korea, but have you seen the wife-beating in the NFL???
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Nov 13, 2014 19:43
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I support FIFA.
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jyrka posted:I support FIFA. Estonian World Cup 2026 incoming.
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advanced statsman posted:Imagine mixing the NFL culture with Serbian football fans. Getting a big ol' boner just thinking about it. Isn't that every Australian sport?
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Gigi Galli posted:Estonian World Cup 2026 incoming. Don't think FIFA will give it to Russia again so soon mate.
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Actually, FIFA are going to make every major competition host their games in Qatar. Bit of a bugger for the teams in the qualifying rounds for the FA Cup, but I'm sure they'll get over it.
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I am pretty sure we will see each Emirate host the next 5 world cups now that we are on a winter World Cup schedule.
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Tsaedje posted:Isn't that every Australian sport? We don't care nearly enough to riot about AFL
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The big federations that actually care and could have the worldwide audience to actually challenge FIFA are Europe, and... uh...
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Losing the European federations would be terrible from a talent standpoint but I think what would actually change things in the extreme short term is loss of European and American advertisers and TV contracts. I doubt the federations would stick to the plan for more than a tournament or two and in the meantime FIFA would keep right on trucking. But losing that money would change things before Russia in 2018. It will never happen. If the international media and public can't get their poo poo together to cover the horrible awful poo poo that's happening in Qatar right this very instant the advertisers will see the outrage as extreme outliers to the general public who will tune in to the World Cup every 4 years.
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Yeah the next time any of my friends give the NFL any poo poo about their policies on wife beating, I am going to laugh.
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Bogan Krkic posted:The big federations that actually care and could have the worldwide audience to actually challenge FIFA are Europe, and... uh... Who? Everyone except the countries (England, USA, Australia) who bid for these world cups is basically complicit and doesn't give a gently caress. I think we all have a warped sense of world opinion due to reading English speaking (and usually British or Yank origin) media. No one gives a poo poo.
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Adnar posted:Who? My point was that really only UEFA would have enough pull to make their own separatist FIFA-lite, but you're right, they don't care either. And literally no-one would care if FIFA lost AFC or CONCACAF et al
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Platini was one of the key people that voted Qatar wasn't he? I don't think even the AFC or CONCACAF even care outside of Aus and USA respectively.
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Well the AFC might care if only because Qatar is a member and with this farce they won't be able to host until again until 2034 at the earliest. I'd imagine the lion's share of AFC exco members went for South Korea and Japan until they were eliminated and then voted against Qatar once they were. Probably thinking that if it went to the US it would almost certainly be going to Asia in 2026. Of course that assumes rational actors who were voting for the best interests of the sport and their confederation. So forget I said anything. EDIT: With that in mind, I wonder if the US will come around to being a candidate again in 2026. They seemed pretty soured on the whole process and if I remember correctly they said they'd only be interested if FIFA changed their ways. Well if Wikipedia is to be believed the confirmed bids so far are Mexico, Canada, and Colombia. So really it's the USA's for the taking if they decide to bid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup I think it's funny that FIFA and the IOC are now on the road to having no developed, reasonably non-corrupt countries interested to bid anymore. poo poo the next vote for the Winter Olympics in 2022 is between Almaty, Kazakhstan and loving Beijing. Have fun with that guys. Pook Good Mook fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Nov 14, 2014 |
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