Pissflaps posted:

I think they should host a world cup at the bottom of the ocean.

serious gaylord posted:

Surely at this point he will have pissed off enough people by promising to stand down and then not that he wont win again?

Mike Toole posted:

mackintosh posted:

That's it. I'm not watching the World Cup.

stickyfngrdboy posted:

Except that was a poo poo world cup

serious gaylord posted:

I dunno, Commebol is a very large association that has a lot of power with regards to elections. Much like africa is full of loving easily bribed countries. You take away the easy votes and then things start to get a bit more difficult to bribe your way through.

The damage will also come from the fact some of these guys were about to be part of the executive committee, or indeed were already serving on it. Further criminalises blatter by association.

TwoDogs1Cup posted:

Top stuff

Pissflaps posted:

advanced statsman posted:

nah it looks like pardew

Koesj posted:

Quoting a fat swiss fraud

Gigi Galli posted:

I don't know if it's true, somebody implied that France, Italy and Spain all did.

vyelkin posted:

It helps that in rugby the refs have zero qualms about giving further penalties just moving ten metres down the field each time, for things that happen after the original penalty. That's not really a thing in football, you never see a ref move a free kick closer to the goal or give a penalty instead of a free kick for something that happened off the ball after a foul was called.

Kurtofan posted:

Bogan Krkic posted:

Powerade doesn't have caffeine in it, so it shouldn't be allowed to be called an energy drink imo

Simone Poodoin posted:

Remember when people thought the mighty Americans would use RICO to take down FIFA?

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But Manchester isn't particularly fond of UEFA. For years, the team's fans, otherwise a rather quiet lot, have passionately booed their hearts out when the Champions League hymn is played. City fans feel that they and their team have been victimized by UEFA. In particular, the penalty the team was forced to pay in 2014 due to its violations of UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules was seen by fans as unfair.

Yet documents from the whistleblower platform Football Leaks reveal that UEFA actually showed Manchester City far too much lenience. The European football association was aware that it let City off the hook with a ludicrously low penalty, despite the club's far-reaching deception. What UEFA didn't know, however, was the vast extent of Manchester's deceit -- mendacity that began the moment in 2008 when Sheikh Mansour purchased the club.