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Spangly A posted:It's hard to say due to the fact that anyone who makes it clear they're going for power is made to disappear very quickly. But I think it's supposed to be Platini? BREAKING NEWS: Platini made president of FIFA, demands only PSG players be allowed to participate in 2022 World Cup
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the sex ghost posted:I wonder how much money I would need to convince FIFA to host an entire World Cup just in the city of Leeds. Various parks and 5 a side pitches around the city for the group games, Elland Road for the final. Is there some sort of bribe chart available for reference Does Leeds/West Yorkshire have vast amounts of oil reserves sitting under it? Because this is important. Also, both semifinals need to be hosted at Headingley, at the same time, one at the cricket ground and the other at the rugby ground.
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Oct 4, 2013 23:05
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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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my son bort posted:Dedicated qatar spot because gently caress you This just makes me wonder which footballer will get paid $Texas to represent Qatar like they do with distance runners.
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Peanut President posted:Yeah a penalty box (sin bin? what is this, a catholic school) has done wonders to stop flagrant fouls in hockey. Yeah well in hockey they have more gradual punishment: minors (your average penalty like tripping, cross-checking, etc) is 2 minutes and if the other team scores the penalty ends, more nasty stuff is 5 and doesn't end on a goal, and if a guy gets injured off a penalty it's usually a 5 min major plus the offender gets sent off. (Plus there's subtle differences between leagues/sanctioning bodies in regards to what is a penalty/how long you sit for, but you get that anywhere.)
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Concerned Citizen posted:Which was placed as "high risk" in the technical evaluation of their proposal, which was a very polite way of saying "what they are claiming they can do is actually impossible." Actually it's not impossible, here I'll show you how (takes out large stack of non-sequential $100 bills)
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Nostradingus posted:Why are they not sequential? This is very important to me. Harder for fraud/corruption investigators to track, but then again FIFA has already investigated itself and found that they aren't corrupt
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Jan 16, 2014 22:32
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Jose posted:You really should have quoted the best part Suddenly the Neymar transfer makes more sense.
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Apr 19, 2014 09:19
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the sex ghost posted:Imagine having a job at FIFA. Just imagine how great your life would be I remember reading an article a few years ago by a guy that used to work at CONCACAF, where he said that Chuck Blazer (former bigwig at CONCACAF and FIFA, now under FBI investigation for fraud relating to his tenure at both organizations) would usually take them all out to Scores, which was a very high-end strip club in Manhattan, to watch matches and pay for it with a CONCACAF-issued Amex Black Card, which is the one they give out to only the highest of rollers. e: the article in question is this-- http://footballspeak.com/post/2011/12/27/Now-Is-The-Time.aspx
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Baldo di Gregorio posted:Platini is such a loving scumbag lol Remember when people thought he'd be "different"? Seems like he learned well from his time at Juve that money speaks the loudest (doubly so when it's laundered to your family via a CxO job at a "sportswear" firm)
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The Mash posted:I agree, FIFA have done a lot to eradica We must eradicate racism but only while watching the game on our Sony TVs wearing Adidas gear, after driving our Hyundai with Continental tires to get Budweiser and Coca-Cola, all of which were paid for on our Visa card. (This statement brought to you by Gazprom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXXhu6Jb8wE.) Troy Queef fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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sticksy posted:What would the criteria need to be for some sort of charges or at least penalties against Blatter / an organization like FIFA be? This got me thinking: what if, say, Chuck Blazer, in a desire to try and re-establish any sense of credibility, were to turn over evidence of FIFA corruption/bribery/etc. in exchange for immunity (and his customary ten percent) in any investigation? The US already has both the RICO Act (and just about everything alleged in the Times reports are RICO predicates) and the Alien Tort Statute (burnished by Filartiga v. Pena-Irala and Sosa v. Alvares-Machain, two court cases that basically say that U.S. courts can rule on actions between one or more foreign nationals due to the fact that the law of nations is a long-accepted part of federal common law, and thus under the ATS they hold original jurisdiction) on its books, and I can see more than a few prosecutors wanting to burnish their "tough on corruption" bona fides, potential diplomatic shitstorm be damned. Come to think of it, this just opened up a whole new avenue of attacking FIFA/corruption/etc.: this means that, for instance, some group could potentially find a Nepalese/Filipino worker on the Qatar WC stadia, gather evidence of slavery, torture, and similar crimes against humanity being done in the course of their construction, and fund a suit or tort claim against the 2022 WC organizers for violations of various treaties. Very interesting. Troy Queef fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jun 10, 2014 |
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Hegay posted:Danish FA voiced their disapproval today as well. It won't change poo poo because UEFA only has like 53 of the 204 votes. Racist.
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Just in: a member of FIFA's financial watchdog committee got arrested for defrauding a hospital.RTE Sport posted:Canover Watson, a businessman from the Cayman Islands and vice-president of the Caribbean Football Union, has denied the allegations.
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A writer watched the FIFA film and the main takeaway he got was that FIFA really, REALLY hates the English.
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We've got an official death toll, folks!The Guardian posted:Nepalese migrants building the infrastructure to host the 2022 World Cup have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014 – despite Qatar’s promises to improve their working conditions, the Guardian has learned.
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Mino Raiola is now going to run for FIFA prez: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...presidency.html
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tbp posted:Ive grown accustomed to my favorite announcer, Anwar Faatin Jafari Shaqeeq Rehman Bakar Saber. Who could forget such classic lines such as" "وسجل ليفربول هدفا التي كانت جيدة. الموت في الغرب.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Tbp akbar
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Teddybear posted:Watch the no-bid award to fox end up being called a bribe attempt of a US company, and THATS what ends Fifa The thought of Sepp and co. facing RICO Act charges makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
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The head of the CAF announced that Africa will vote as a bloc for Blatter in the FIFA elections Football is dead, salt the earth, etc.
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Blue Star Error posted:I'd glad someone's keeping up the pressure, I was starting to feel like workers dying of heatstroke was no longer a hot Bhutan topic. St Evan Echoes posted:Imagine news of Qatari abuse of migrant workers made it back home to Nepal, it'd send shockwaves through the whole country I'll admit, I laughed, but keep in mind that the people that made that film got detained and had a sizable amount of footage erased (link auf Deutsch: https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/das_erste/2015/05/20150504_die_story_im_ersten.html;jsessionid=881E66E7D3ACFE57928B91F767223525.presse1)
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African AIDS cum posted:I'm not sure worldstarhiphop.com is gonna be able to do much to him tbh  Also, I told you all this would happen: the Alien Tort Statute combined with the RICO Act is a powerful thing, and if the Feds have enough to indict it's an almost certain win because they have a 93% conviction rate and do not exactly like to have that number go down.
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May 27, 2015 05:56
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Also: this case is likely going to get direct oversight from the new US Attorney General (before this she was US Attorney for NY Eastern District, where the FIFA investigation was being held because Chuck Blazer lived there), plus it's her first case as AG and she's looking for something big to put in the win column. Long story short: FIFA is hosed
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May 27, 2015 06:20
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Crazy Ted posted:Or raping children. I don't think anyone famous will come out and claim what Blatter did wasn't "racketeering-racketeering" like they did with Roman Polanski.
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May 27, 2015 06:30
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Pleads posted:How does it work with the US charging them for poo poo that most likely never happened in the US? Is it just that if they commit any of their illegal poo poo in the US, the US can then go after the whole organization? Essentially, yes, because of this law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute (Also, in all likelihood some of the stuff Blazer furnished to the Feds took place in the US--remember, CONCACAF has headquarters/offices in both NYC and Miami--so they'd have original jurisdiction on two fronts.) There's a press conference scheduled for Wednesday morning US time where they'll unseal the indictment and go into more detail
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Blue Star Error posted:Reminder that I predicted that this investigation would be quietly shelved and USA would get the 2026 World Cup lol. I've never been happier to be wrong. Would you say this is better than Norwich getting promoted?
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Blue Star Error posted:Potentially, depends if the fed proper do em or if it all fizzles out Read my posts upthread about how the US Dept of Justice has a 93% conviction rate, the current US Attorney General being the former head of the office that did most of the investigation and thus having a vested interest in this, and in general how the Feds do not bring a case unless they know drat well they will win it.
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WE HAVE A STATEMENT!https://www.bj.admin.ch/bj/en/home/aktuell/news/2015/2015-27-05.html posted:By order of the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ), six soccer officials were arrested in Zurich today (Wednesday) and detained pending extradition. The US authorities suspect them of having received bribes totaling in the USD millions.
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Crazy Ted posted:The New York Times is now reporting 14 names of people it says have been charged in the US indictments. They are: poo poo, the former heads of both CONCACAF and CONMEBOL? This is getting bigger than I thought it would.
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Gigi Galli posted:Italian newspapers have been saying that since the day the game ended. We all know it was fixed, and I bet the Spanish do as well. Reminder that the referee in Korea-Italy was only recently released from Sing Sing after serving 26 months when he got caught at JFK Airport trying to smuggle 6 kilograms of heroin into the U.S. Troy Queef fucked around with this message at 03:27 on May 29, 2015 |
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Crazy Ted posted:And just like that, the first headine in today's Opinion section: What if men had periods? It’s a question still worth posing How can you talk about Teh Grauniad's massive attempt to go for click bait and not mention that they employ Jessica Valenti?
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corn in the fridge posted:i think you mean Leeds dad is blattered only on ibuprofen
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Platini and Blatter just had their bans cut by two years "in recognition of their services to football".
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We got another one in the Panama Papers: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-pull-fifa-uefa-chief-gianni-infantino-corruption-scandalquote:Files seen by the Guardian will raise questions about the role Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, played in deals that were concluded when he was director of legal services at Uefa, European football’s governing body.
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Jeffrey Webb, the former CONCACAF president who was one of the people arrested in Zurich, just had the transcript of his guilty plea released:http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/apr/18/fifa-corruption-scandal-us-releases-three-guilty-plea-transcripts posted:“I abused my position to obtain bribes and kickbacks for my personal benefit,” Webb, who suffers from a heart condition, told the judge in pleading guilty to seven counts and confessing to enriching himself from 2012-2014.
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Crazy Ted posted:FIFA is perfectly fine in it's original version, when it was strictly limited to football administration and governance. It became an indefensible behemoth when Joao Havelange took it over, made it into a commercial organization, started competing with club football, and introduced Brazilian-style politics and corruption into the organization. This just makes United Passions, the film that said that all the problems with FIFA were the fault of the British, even funnier.
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vyelkin posted:rip joao you killed football and stole its lifeforce allowing you to live for an unnaturally long time all the rear end in a top hat South American guys that helped to kill football all lived for a long time--Havelange, Nicolas Leoz, Julio Grondona etc. makes you think
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another reminder that FIFA is poo poo: they're going to let teams based in illegal settlements play in the Israeli league, all while the Israeli government tortures Palestinian footballers
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UEFA is finally looking at PSG's sponsorship deals: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/apr/11/psg-may-face-uefa-sanctions-overvalued-qatari-deal
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Babby Thatcher posted:what's his username on here? African AIDS cum
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