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"So what is political influence?" "Simply put, it's when a host nation's delegation directly hands us fat stacks of cash and we give them a World Cup."
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corpuscollossus posted:Qatar is unlivable in the summer, it empties out June to August. Even the sea is too hot to swim in. Air-conditioned stadiums or not, there will be no entertainment outside of getting blitzed in the hotel lobby or cramming into the lovely malls here. Is that even an option? I was under the impression you couldn't really drink in Qatar except for the special sections they're setting up for the WC.
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It's going to be incredible when they decide to rebid because of the whole winter thing, and everyone votes for Qatar so that it can be "totally legit" now.
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Puseklepp posted:If anything's good gonna come out of this world cup fiasco, it's gonna be raised awareness for this issue by media. And that will amount to what?
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Jesus, that article.
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I enjoy him screaming all over his twitter account that his article was "balanced."
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Nov 23, 2013 23:10
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Sepp Blatter himself has asked some of his friends in Qatar if these reports are accurate, and assures everyone that they are indeed "totally bogus." In other news, Sepp Blatter has been named "Construction Czar" for all of Qatar and assures everyone this is not a conflict of interest.
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Jan 27, 2014 00:50
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It's a joke, but might as well be true.
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Jan 27, 2014 07:19
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serious gaylord posted:It wont get moved. Qatar are such a small footballing nation that they wouldnt care if Fifa banned them for life for exposing all the bribery they paid to get it there in the first place. Yeah, they'll just use that vote to "prove" that the original voting process was on the up and up.
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Keep talking that poo poo and FIFA is going to settle the Ukrainian dispute by buying it and forming the nation of New Blatterton, where all future World Cups will be held. The central location from major oil money will make a convenient place for bribe drop-offs in order to participate in the event. In forty years they'll have the world convinced that football was invented there.
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Mar 26, 2014 13:27
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Any re-vote would result in them all voting for Qatar in order to prove that original vote was totally legitimate all along.
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Jun 1, 2014 18:51
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How can African referees collect their bribes if there are challenge flags? [/racism]
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Jun 12, 2014 07:46
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Once all the watches are returned, all outstanding ethical matters will finally be resolved. Case closed.
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vyelkin posted:Don't forget that Gerard Depardieu is the guy who moved to Russia to avoid France's new high taxes. Even if Roth and the director did slip in some ironic corruption, I'm pretty sure Depardieu didn't. Doesn't Depardieu drink like 18 bottles of wine a day or something crazy like that?
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I just want to see a documentary on FIFA corruption, with Jack Warner selling everyone out.
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Oct 1, 2014 14:15
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I'm sure ol' Sepp "[females] could, for example, have tighter shorts" Blatter will resolve this to everyone's satisfaction.
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Oct 6, 2014 07:57
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Why does Sepp get a movie when really all film monies should go directly to Scorsese to make a movie about Chuck Blazer?
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This poo poo's gonna be so much fun to watch once FIFA decides that the next logical step is to start ordering hits on people.
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All they had to do was not award the World Cup to the most obvious bribe country possible and these assholes could have made a killing for eons to come.
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Boy, FIFA's internal ethics committee's faces are sure gonna be red when they realize all this corruption happened right under their noses!
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May 27, 2015 08:31
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I'm going to live the rest of my life and never be so happy to hear an IRS man speak.
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Gonna get drunk and watch Goodfellas, The Untouchables, Starship Troopers, and maybe Team America: World Police.
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Maybe his lawyers suggested this as a measure to earn some good will and decrease his jail time. Wonder if he'll turn himself in in the next 24 hours. Hopefully he strikes a deal to open his vault of blackmail on everyone all the way to Tammy from HR for a reduced sentence. No way a guy this brazen just up and quits. Or maybe he stepped down so that he could find the real killers.
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Blatter should just spend the rest of his days in a white suit and fedora asking people around town to just let him "wet his beak a little."
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American exceptionalism. Jesus Christ dude. Edit: It's not about let's do this for America. It's about the government catching a massive tax cheat, then looking at the case for all of thirty seconds and being like "Holy poo poo guys! Look at how blatantly corrupt these dudes are! This is like the easiest case in the world!". Having the opportunity to disrupt an international crime ring, where there aren't many political entanglements or skeletons in the closet, you don't have to fear reprisals, and the citizens of the world will applaud you for it is like any law enforcement official's wet dream. CubanMissile fucked around with this message at 10:46 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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I wanna see the meetings where everyone left just keeps telling each other that everything is fine and they can continue to do whatever they want.
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jyrka posted:Come on, big FAs, break away from FIFA/UEFA already. This is the eternal "wanting Donald Trump to get impeached" equivalent of our people. 
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