vyelkin posted:

i hope blatter loses and gives a speech where he says "im taking you all down with me" and his dead man's switch is emailed to the fbi and every single person involved in fifa goes to prison for the rest of their life

Monday Bandele posted:

If I was a Blazer relative I'd be entering witness relocation right now

NTRabbit posted:

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Oh it’s all kicking off now. We know that the Swiss authorities are investigating the bidding process behind the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, but the president of the Congolese FA and Fifa executive committee member, Constant Omari, has now told French radio RTL that Germany bought the right the host the 2006 World Cup!

serious gaylord posted:

Someone called in a bomb threat to Fifa hq lol.

Humphrey Vasel posted:

Constant omari is a pretty good name

PlantHead posted:

Suspicious brown bag found at FIFA headquarters - must be a bomb right?

Dravs posted:

Pretty sure baseball came from the game rounders, which is a game for children

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Israel is going to leave FIFA now, but not because of corruption, because they aren't allowed to be openly racist

gfanikf posted:

Wait how are Italy and Spain not leaving then?

Lid posted:

Spain has been the modern day East Germany ever since the wall fell.

Tigey posted:

I think Blatter is a symptom rather than the problem itself.

The problem with FIFA is that it is one country, one vote. That means that China, a country of 1.4bln people, has same number of votes as the Faroe Islands, which isn't even independent and has only 50k people. Same also holds true for footballing giants - Germany, Brazil, etc, have same votes as Nepal.

Even if Blatter is toppled, this structural problem is going to remain. The smaller federations will always be susceptable to influence - whether its bribes or pressure (same thing happens at the UN - China and Taiwan respectively bribe small countries to vote for them and against the other). FIFA needs a completely new governance structure to deal with this, but there is no way the turkeys will vote for christmas

straight up brolic posted:

this is the greatest poo poo of all time

Lid posted:

He put that system in. Guess why.

silvergoose posted:

So if I read right, the one member one vote came in *after* the qatar decision?

Monday Bandele posted:

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The Guardian’s Peter Beaumont has more on the Palestinian motion to have Israel suspended from Fifa. With the vote to come in the next couple of hours or so, it looks as though it will go down to the wire.

As we reported this morning there is an agreement on compromise issues on four of the main points in the Palestinian complaint. Israel has offered laissez passers for Palestinian footballers, to help develop Palestinian pitches and to set up a mechanism for disagreements.

Where there is still no agreement - and the deal breaker for both sides - is on the issue of five settlement football teams based in the occupied territories. The Palestinian FA wants them suspended and Israel says this isn’t going to happen. The suggested Fifa compromise is that this is parked at the UN which then decides on the issue. Israel is not keen on this at all since the likely ruling, in line with international law, is that the teams are based in illegal settlements in land under occupation.

All that Blatter has done for now is pushing the issue further along the agenda in the hope of buying a couple more hours for a deal. My sources on the Palestinian delegation have been pretty consistent on this issue today and for the preceding weeks. That doesn’t mean there won’t necessarily be a fudge in the end but it is going to go right up to any vote by the looks of it.

elwood posted:

elwood posted:

http://therealfutbol.com/2011/07/22/gift-baskets-sausages-and-kukuclocks-the-final-fax-that-changed-the-2006-world-cup/

Gigi Galli posted:

Just make Israel play in Africa or something, it's closer than Europe and not as Arab.