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porkface
Dec 29, 2000

Byolante posted:

FIFA are in a tough situation there because Russia and Qatar are locked in a proxy war over oil pipelines. When both petrostates are paying you all the money how do you decide which one to come out in support of. Better to just let is play out in this poster's opinion

Hold a bidding war, and hope you don't cross Bill Clinton in the process.

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Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

porkface posted:

Hold a bidding war, and hope you don't cross Bill Clinton in the process.
Just don't route the loving money through American banks this time.

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Crazy Ted posted:

Just don't route the loving money through American banks this time.

I think the new administration would be fine with dirty russian money flowing through the US in a golden stream.

Crazy Ted
Jul 29, 2003

Byolante posted:

I think the new administration would be fine with dirty russian money flowing through the US in a golden stream.
Well, if they're around long enough to see FIFA help pump Russian money through US banks.

African AIDS cum
Feb 29, 2012


Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack
Go back to D&D

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost

Byolante posted:

I think the new administration would be fine with dirty russian money flowing through the US in a golden stream.

Former MI6 intelligence officer spotted.

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

sticksy posted:

Former MI6 intelligence officer spotted.

I'm posting from inside a padlodcked bag

jeebus bob
Nov 4, 2004

Festina lente
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/23/barcelona-president-sandro-rosell-detain-money-laundering

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain have severed diplomatic ties with Qatar over Qatari support for terrorism and extremism.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/05/saudi-arabia-and-bahrain-break-diplomatic-ties-with-qatar-over-terrorism

I wonder how FIFA will respohahahahaha

MagusDraco
Nov 11, 2011

even speedwagon was trolled

vyelkin posted:

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain have severed diplomatic ties with Qatar over Qatari support for terrorism and extremism.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/05/saudi-arabia-and-bahrain-break-diplomatic-ties-with-qatar-over-terrorism

I wonder how FIFA will respohahahahaha

FiIFA: 2022 is a long ways away.

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

vyelkin posted:

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain have severed diplomatic ties with Qatar over Qatari support for terrorism and extremism.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/05/saudi-arabia-and-bahrain-break-diplomatic-ties-with-qatar-over-terrorism

I wonder how FIFA will respohahahahaha

I am more curious how they will deal with this clear political statement by a football team

quote:

Neighbours of one of the suspected terrorists involved in the London attacks – who recognised him from a picture in which he appears to be wearing an Arsenal shirt and a fake suicide bomb vest – have spoken of their shock.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
not sure i trust saudi arabia more than qatar about who's supporting terrorism tbf

Kurtofan fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Jun 5, 2017

Blue Star Error
Jun 11, 2001

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vyelkin posted:

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, and Bahrain have severed diplomatic ties with Qatar over Qatari support for terrorism and extremism.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/05/saudi-arabia-and-bahrain-break-diplomatic-ties-with-qatar-over-terrorism

I wonder how FIFA will respohahahahaha

Europe should separate ties with all those countries because they are cunts

Living Image
Apr 24, 2010

HORSE'S ASS

Kurtofan posted:

not sure i trust saudi arabia more than qatar about who's supporting terrorism tbf

Idk I reckon if anyone knows about supporting terrorism it's Saudi Arabia

Byolante
Mar 23, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Corrode posted:

Idk I reckon if anyone knows about supporting terrorism it's Saudi Arabia

Ranking terrorist supporters I have had run ins with I would go:

Millwall
Cardiff
Birmingham

For the bits of bovva I experienced on away days with my 'mates' in the n40

Pook Good Mook
Aug 6, 2013


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Blue Star Error posted:

Europe should separate ties with all those countries because they are cunts

If the Qatar Cup doesn't break FIFA apart, nothing will.

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/101greatgoals/status/871432893024923648
He's apparently facing FIFA sanctions for violating his contract

runoverbobby
Apr 21, 2007

Fighting like beavers.
"The club took away my passport" would have been better than "The club took my passport and nobody passed me the ball and the manager expected me to abide by his tactics :cry:"

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
trump getting antsy about qatar, maybe the cup will be cancelled if he invades

Healbot
Jul 7, 2006

very very very fucjable
very vywr very


Kurtofan posted:

trump getting antsy about qatar, maybe the cup will be cancelled if he invades

Nah, it'll be a tournament held in the greendesert zone.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari

Kurtofan posted:

trump getting antsy about qatar, maybe the cup will be cancelled if he invades

It straight up is not happening if the situation remains as is.

Bogan Krkic
Oct 31, 2010

Swedish style? No.
Yugoslavian style? Of course not.
It has to be Zlatan-style.

There is nothing that will see the Qatar World Cup cancelled other than the country ceasing to exist imo

Gigi Galli
Sep 19, 2003

and then the car turned in to fire

Bogan Krkic posted:

There is nothing that will see the Qatar World Cup cancelled other than the country ceasing to exist imo

So you're saying it's pretty plausible

algebra testes
Mar 5, 2011


Lipstick Apathy
I wonder what the process is if Qatar can't host it.

I thought they had a backup country ready to go, ie: a major european country with the requisite football infrastructure, but lol, who knows.

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

algebra testes posted:

I wonder what the process is if Qatar can't host it.

I thought they had a backup country ready to go, ie: a major european country with the requisite football infrastructure, but lol, who knows.

Some posters will tell you there is a certain country that could host a world cup at a moments' notice.

Blue Star Error
Jun 11, 2001

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algebra testes posted:

I wonder what the process is if Qatar can't host it.

I thought they had a backup country ready to go, ie: a major european country with the requisite football infrastructure, but lol, who knows.

its coming home

Pook Good Mook
Aug 6, 2013


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algebra testes posted:

I wonder what the process is if Qatar can't host it.

I thought they had a backup country ready to go, ie: a major european country with the requisite football infrastructure, but lol, who knows.

The rule on the books is that it defaults to the last country that previously hosted. Hope everyone likes Russia!

Though that just might get the Russians their money back (to be funneled immediately to oligarchs).

Waroduce
Aug 5, 2008
Lol imagine a world cup in Russia in this international environment lmao

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Waroduce posted:

Lol imagine a world cup in Russia in this international environment lmao

"Free wifi for all"

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Waroduce posted:

Lol imagine a world cup in Russia in this international environment lmao

Yeah, the bidding selection from 2009 is looking pretty :lol: worthy right now

I mean it was back then too, but one country is public enemy #1 of the west and the other is about to get into a war with all of their neighbors

But thank god for all of that sweet sweet bribe money

And impossible AC systems

Gigi Galli
Sep 19, 2003

and then the car turned in to fire

Pook Good Mook posted:

The rule on the books is that it defaults to the last country that previously hosted. Hope everyone likes Russia!

Though that just might get the Russians their money back (to be funneled immediately to oligarchs).

The truth emerges

blue footed boobie
Sep 14, 2012


UEFA SUPREMACY

That Works posted:

"Free wifi for all"

lol

Literally Lewis Hamilton
Feb 22, 2005



Russia will crack down on crime and the World Cup there will be a succès imo

Pook Good Mook
Aug 6, 2013


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big crush on Chad OMG posted:

Russia will crack down on crime and the World Cup there will be a succès imo

Crime is but one of the dozens of reasons why the Russian world cup will be horrible for spectators.

Wirth1000
May 12, 2010

#essereFerrari
Thread title should probably be changed to FIFA Qatarruption or something. Is Blatter even still alive? Seems like ages ago I even heard anything from him.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Wave dubai to Qatar

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011

Wirth1000 posted:

Thread title should probably be changed to FIFA Qatarruption or something. Is Blatter even still alive? Seems like ages ago I even heard anything from him.

He got banned from football for years and years, same with Platini, because it turned out they were the only corrupt people in all of FIFA

trem_two
Oct 22, 2002

it is better if you keep saying I'm fat, as I will continue to score goals
Fun Shoe

vyelkin posted:

He got banned from football for years and years, same with Platini, because it turned out they were the only corrupt people in all of FIFA

thank u Uncle Rico :fsmug:

oliwan
Jul 20, 2005

by Nyc_Tattoo
Amid all these distractions, Qatar still managed to hold the mighty North Korea to a draw today #respect

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Polidoro
Jan 5, 2011


Huevo se dice argidia. Argidia!
I'm happy for the best Qatari striker of all time Sebastián Soria

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