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Considered as a whole, Yorkshire has a better claim than Qatar, and if granted independence from the UK would avoid the unfashionability of the UK in world politics. Consider the huge international leverage of cricket in south Asia, and the internationally popular exports of beer and Finchy from the Office. Psybro fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Oct 5, 2013 |
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Psybro posted:Considered as a whole, Yorkshire has a better claim than Qatar, and if granted independence from the UK would avoid the unfashionability of the UK in world politics. Hmmm, Leeds (both Elland Road and Headingley), Hull, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Sheffield (both Bramall Lane and Hillsborough), Bradford (either Valley Parade or Odsal will do), Wakefield Trinity's new ground, something new in York, something new in Halifax... Draw up a mascot of a whippet wearing a flat cap and with a mug of Bovril and we're sorted.
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T. Finninho posted:I WANT THEM ALL DEAD Well they are old and quite fat, so in all likelyhood a significant percentage of them will die before the Qatar World Cup rolls around. Those will be fun days.
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Der Shovel posted:Well they are old and quite fat, so in all likelyhood a significant percentage of them will die before the Qatar World Cup rolls around. Those will be fun days. This is the worst bit. They had two votes for one last pay day and they don't even have to see the steaming turd of a World Cup they've left us with. Hopefully before 2022 war breaks out or something but even then FIFA would probably find an excuse to keep it there.
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Der Shovel posted:Well they are old and quite fat, so in all likelyhood a significant percentage of them will die before the Qatar World Cup rolls around. Those will be fun days. Reminder that Platini voted for Qatar and he is almost certainly going to be the next FIFA president
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Scott Bakula posted:Reminder that Platini voted for Qatar and he is almost certainly going to be the next FIFA president And that's my week ruined.
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Scott Bakula posted:Reminder that Platini voted for Qatar and he is almost certainly going to be the next FIFA president I really don't think we can realistically rule out Blatter outliving Platini. He may harvest his life force for another term. If Sepp lived to be 165 it would not even remotely surprise me.
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Scott Bakula posted:Reminder that Platini voted for Qatar and he is almost certainly going to be the next FIFA president Yeah he'll make a great FIFA president.
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it's good and cool that the Guardian newspaper have been on Qatar's and FIFA's case about corruption etc the whole time with utmost consistency http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2010/nov/25/world-cup-2022-qatar-fifa (the comments, lmao) quote:Full disclosure: (more hours pass) quote:The trip was organised and paid for by the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid committee.
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Babby Thatcher posted:it's good and cool that the Guardian newspaper have been on Qatar's and FIFA's case about corruption etc the whole time with utmost consistency Yeah drat you sure got them
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Babby Thatcher posted:it's good and cool that the Guardian newspaper have been on Qatar's and FIFA's case about corruption etc the whole time with utmost consistency I wonder how many six figure gold watches she managed to slip by HMRC on her way back to the uk.
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quote:An unprecedented opportunity awaits to forge fresh, enhanced understanding with the Arab world. Well I'd say a wider understanding of how things work in the Gulf is certainly spreading.
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:This is the worst bit. They had two votes for one last pay day and they don't even have to see the steaming turd of a World Cup they've left us with. Hopefully before 2022 war breaks out or something but even then FIFA would probably find an excuse to keep it there. A war in the middle east is a small price to pay to bring football home
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Psybro posted:Well I'd say a wider understanding of how things work in the Gulf is certainly spreading. I agree. I had no idea it was hot there
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Giving Fifa a lift after another tough month: the prompt conclusion of an inquiry into Qatari slave state allegations, led by Ali bin Samikh al-Marri, head of Qatar's national human rights committee. His verdict: "There is no slavery or forced labour in Qatar." Again, you couldn't make this poo poo up.
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Dickail Bulgeakov posted:A war in the middle east is a small price to pay to bring football home What better way to celebrate the launch of our new aircraft carriers than by using them to bring football home?
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Crazy Ted posted:Giving Fifa a lift after another tough month: the prompt conclusion of an inquiry into Qatari slave state allegations, led by Ali bin Samikh al-Marri, head of Qatar's national human rights committee. His verdict: "There is no slavery or forced labour in Qatar." This reminds me of the Abu Dhabi prince who had a thing for videoing torture seshs out in the desert where he'd ride over legs in his land cruiser and force feed sand and shoot an assault rifle round the head before adding it to his VHS stack for later, but after the video made the internet and the state department started huffing and gesturing they had a trial where it was adjudged that the torturee was fine with it, really.
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Babby Thatcher posted:it's good and cool that the Guardian newspaper have been on Qatar's and FIFA's case about corruption etc the whole time with utmost consistency During the two months I was interning at a small-ish foreign issues magazine (the type of magazine that focusses on the kind of issues the organisations that host these trips try to hide), we would regularly get calls with offers to go to Armenia, Colombia, Malaysia, etc. Our editor-in-chief would generally sigh, ask the room if anyone wanted to go to country x or y, get a bunch of 'not interested's or a 'I'd go, but I'm banned from that country' and then declined the offer. But I know that larger newspapers say yes far more often, to the point that they actually call the organisations themselves to enquire about the next trip.
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Crazy Ted posted:Giving Fifa a lift after another tough month: the prompt conclusion of an inquiry into Qatari slave state allegations, led by Ali bin Samikh al-Marri, head of Qatar's national human rights committee. His verdict: "There is no slavery or forced labour in Qatar." Phew!
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Qatar killed Christian Benitez.
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Qatar shot Salvador Cabañas in the temple.
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Weaponized Cum posted:Qatar shot Salvador Cabañas in the temple. Apparently they hired Jozy.
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Adulterous Hitler posted:Apparently they hired Jozy. Holy lmao When I went to the CWC in Abu Dhabi it was p. sweet because of the Internacional and TP Mazembe fans but drat you wouldn't want to organise a tournament in those kinds of countries.
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Gulf states will have clinical screenings at airport to 'detect' homosexuals and stop them entering the country They cannot hold the loving tournament there, surely. What a farce.
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Popehoist posted:They cannot hold the loving tournament there, surely. What a farce. Well see here's the thing. Being a decent human being and standing up to flagrant and offensive bigotry does not get Sepp Blatter millions of dollars in bribes. Smoothing things over and turning a blind eye to flagrant offenses towards basic human rights does. The tournament will go ahead as planned even if literally everyone in the world protests.
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Popehoist posted:Gulf states will have clinical screenings at airport to 'detect' homosexuals and stop them entering the country Sounds like the Apartheid era pencil test. If the pencil drops he's def into the lads. I work with a number of gays and Doha has a very active community. In Saudi it's even bigger due to the gender segregation: http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/the-kingdom-in-the-closet/305774/ I'll be surprised if there's a thing to this.
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corpuscollossus posted:This reminds me of the Abu Dhabi prince who had a thing for videoing torture seshs out in the desert where he'd ride over legs in his land cruiser and force feed sand and shoot an assault rifle round the head before adding it to his VHS stack for later, but after the video made the internet and the state department started huffing and gesturing they had a trial where it was adjudged that the torturee was fine with it, really. Somehow didn't know about this. Incredible. Disgusting. Not surprising. Here's an article about it in case I'm not the only one who missed it
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And another article about Quatar and their weird way of "honoring" contracts with their employees. http://www.fifpro.org/news/news_details/2246 Which includes stuff like this: FIFPro posted:The former player for Nancy and Fulham recalls once more: ‘A very few days after training resumed - we were in the middle of training - they came up to see me and said I had to leave the club. I might have taken it for a joke, but I understood right away that the guy who’d come to tell me the news was not joking. I tried to discuss things, to understand, to convince, but there was no room for discussion, nothing to understand and no one to convince as soon as I learned that these were “orders from the Prince”. That was the only explanation I was finally able to get, accompanied, every time I tried to start a dialogue or negotiation, by another sentence that I heard who knows how many times: ”The Prince’s orders are not open to discussion”.’ FIFPro posted:'But they gave me this parting message: “We are going to do everything we can to make this business drag on, so that you will be waiting for your money as long as possible. Four or five years minimum, we have a lot of influence with FIFA!” Those people don’t respect anything or anyone.’
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TheBigAristotle posted:Somehow didn't know about this. Incredible. Disgusting. Not surprising. I like the lawyer. worked for bush as well? guess he has a lot of experience helping brutal dictators #satire
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Oh, what a surprise!quote:Following a two-day hearing in Zurich, the FIFA Appeal Committee has decided to impose on Vernon Manilal Fernando a lifetime ban from taking part in any kind of football-related activity at national and international level. quote:He certainly throws his considerable weight around in some unexpected places. Like Port of Spain, Trinidad, in May this year, where for reasons yet to be adequately explained he arrived for a Caribbean Football Union meeting on a private jet from Doha in the company of [then] AFC president Mohamed Bin Hammam and fellow FIFA ex-co members Worawi Makudi and Hany Abo Rida. It was there he proceeded to get caught up in that alleged bribery business that brought down the flashy Qatari. This. Is. All. hosed.
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Romario calls FIFA corrupt, Sepp Blatter a thief, Valcke a blackmailer
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Maradona joining inMaradona posted:The FIFA directors are all over 95 years old" he said. "The people there are so old that they cannot even drive a car, so how do they lead the world of football? Also said that FIFA only cares about business, seems like a lot of the legends is starting to put pressure on FIFA http://www.inforegion.com.ar/noticia/60006/maradona-no-les-importa-el-futbol-solo-el-negocio
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Hegav posted:Maradona joining in I'm sure FIFA will give lots of fucks about the opinions of people who no longer even play football. It's great that legends are weighing in and all but lets face it, the likes of Maradonna are hardly beyond reproach and he's got some loving front to criticise corruption in the governing body when you just know he'd be giggling like an idiot in a vat of coke and whores if he was in Blatter's position.
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FIFpro, the union of professional football players, have already said they will boycott a Qatar summer World Cup. e: Oh no it was a misquote: http://www.fifpro.org/news/news_details/2377 belgend fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Oct 19, 2013 |
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Hegav posted:Maradona joining in Pretty ageist to say you can't drive at 95, there are centenarians who ran the marathon.
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So how long before Blatter just has himself declared President For Life? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24634466 quote:Fifa president Sepp Blatter has given his strongest hint yet that he plans to stay on in the role past 2015 and finish "his mission".
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