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ephex posted:Qatar 2022 is gonna be a lot of fun I remember when Brazil said there was going to be no alcohol in the stadiums and FIFA threatened to pull the entire WC. You think they'll say anything this time?
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:I remember when Brazil said there was going to be no alcohol in the stadiums and FIFA threatened to pull the entire WC. You think they'll say anything this time? As long as beer companies continue to be some of FIFA's biggest sponsors, then yes they definitely will force them to allow it or they'll take the WC somewhere else.
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When will a heroin cartel sponsor the cup so we can count the slumped over corpses in the crowd This is why we need Blatter back
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:I remember when Brazil said there was going to be no alcohol in the stadiums and FIFA threatened to pull the entire WC. You think they'll say anything this time? There will probably be some retarded token system or something so you can get beer in the stadium but their not technically selling it but you just won't be able to get tanked up before hand.
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freeedr posted:When will a heroin cartel sponsor the cup so we can count the slumped over corpses in the crowd
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Beckenbauer must be feeling nervous about now.quote:Investigators have carried out further house searches as part of a widening probe into bribery allegations over the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany, Swiss prosecutors say. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38157099
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What other countries were in contention for 2006?
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Gigi Galli posted:What other countries were in contention for 2006? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup#Host_selection England, South Africa and ... Morocco (Brazil withdrew).
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ellspurs posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup#Host_selection
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B.B. Rodriguez posted:I remember when Brazil said there was going to be no alcohol in the stadiums and FIFA threatened to pull the entire WC. You think they'll say anything this time? https://youtu.be/bcuAw77J8_Y
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Crazy Ted posted:Wasn't that the World Cup that was originally supposed to go to Africa? And there was controversy over the final vote? Blatter wanted it in Africa, the rest of the flock anywhere that paid enough for it. Edit: Brazil withdrew after making arrangements with Germany and UEFA on hosting in 2014 iirc.
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Someone should make a new thread regarding the huge football leak that just happened. I suck at ops
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orange sky posted:Someone should make a new thread regarding the huge football leak that just happened. I suck at ops whats this then?
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Naldo hid €150 million in the British Virgin Islands.
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https://eic.network these are the newspapers that have the files. All trustworthy information should come though those Some of them haven't published anything yet. I know https://www.expresso.pt has indo already up, but editors must be scared shitless of reporting something like this. If it turns out to be a false alarm, ohhhhhh poo poo. orange sky fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Dec 3, 2016 |
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I'm not clear at all on what the exact story is here. I know Ozil and Ronaldo and probably everyone who ever touched la liga is implicated, but I haven't seen a comprehensive story of what we're talking about, or if what we're talking about is actually criminal and not just creative accounting.
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orange sky posted:https://eic.network these are the newspapers that have the files. All trustworthy information should come though those http://espresso.repubblica.it/ has it as well, they say they've been sitting on this for a year while the evidence accumulates. We talked a bit about this in the Serie A thread. Right now it's mostly tax fraud which may or not be illegal which also has been happening since the dawn of taxes anywhere. Where I think this could go bad is with the stuff about transfers and how labor laws were probably broken. Again, sketchy details and I honestly can't bring myself to care about billionaires circumventing tax laws any more.
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 BREAKING NEWS Millionaire footballers use tax havens, just like every other millionaire. This changes everything!
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jeebus bob posted:Naldo hid €150 million in the British Virgin Islands. Naldo is the name of a centerback playing for Schalke right now, and I don't think he earned that much money to set aside.
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Healbot posted:Naldo is the name of a centerback playing for Schalke right now, and I don't think he earned that much money to set aside. I meant Roland, captain of the Portugays, champion of UEFA, toucher of balls.
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jeebus bob posted:I meant Roland, captain of the Portugays, champion of UEFA, toucher of balls. This guy? 
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I think you mean the Bimbo advert superstar Cristian Orlando
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mods please rename me Cristiano Rolando
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all this could've been avoided if Roth would've just moved to Germany, where schools and colleges are free.
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Jose posted:tim roth did a guardian interview This is super sad.
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He's not a lovely C-list actor you don't need to pity him for selling his soul and taking a massive payday
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I never actually watched the whole thing, I just skipped around a bit till that gem at the end with Mandela
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https://twitter.com/AFP/status/806527894478524417 16 groups of three LOL
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I don't know, is it really any more or less ridiculous than what we have now? In this format two teams, I assume, progress from groups of three. Not that big a deal IMO.
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Vegetable posted:I don't know, is it really any more or less ridiculous than what we have now? In this format two teams, I assume, progress from groups of three. Not that big a deal IMO. Not a big deal, apart from their are only a couple of countries that have the stadiums, hotels, etc to cope with 48 countries worth of fans. England, Germany and the USA are the only ones who could host in on their own - and even they would struggle due to the complete nightmare policing it would be. Scotland still wouldn't qualify though.
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ukle posted:Not a big deal, apart from their are only a couple of countries that have the stadiums, hotels, etc to cope with 48 countries worth of fans. England, Germany and the USA are the only ones who could host in on their own - and even they would struggle due to the complete nightmare policing it would be. I encourage everyone to re-read the op in light of this post.
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ukle posted:Not a big deal, apart from their are only a couple of countries that have the stadiums, hotels, etc to cope with 48 countries worth of fans.  quote:Scotland still wouldn't qualify though. Yep
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ukle posted:Not a big deal, apart from their are only a couple of countries that have the stadiums, hotels, etc to cope with 48 countries worth of fans. England, Germany and the USA are the only ones who could host in on their own - and even they would struggle due to the complete nightmare policing it would be. I get the feeling that FIFA and the IOC both reached a point of no return in the mid-2000's where they realized that their events had two directions they could go. Either consider hosting bids based on feasibility or consider them based on the amount of graft and bribes were possible. Both groups seem to have made the decision to go with the options that could get them the most bribe money to line their pockets. I hope that the debacle with the recent winter olympics in Sochi and the bidding that resulted in Beijing has taught the IOC the lesson they needed to learn, I'm unsure about FIFA.
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The early stages of international tournaments are already bloated and boring, this just adds another 16 fixtures
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Maybe they are thinking the 3rd group of 16 would be full of bad countries and they would just play amongst themselves sorta like a Europa League thing.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/dec/09/more-than-1000-russian-athletes-benefitted-from-state-sponsored-doping Russia has been misbehaving and doping athletes (including footballers) on a massive scale for years with undetectable PEDs, according to a new WADA report. But I'm sure the 2018 World Cup will be above board!
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Didn't realize there was a demand for PK shootouts throughout the entire World Cup: https://twitter.com/martynziegler/status/807137121412780033
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