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FIFA would never hold the World Cup in Antarctica as penguins have not discovered a way to pay bribes.
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Every time I see this dumb Qatari ahole's smug smile it makes me angry. Then he's so goofy it reminds me of this and I have to laugh: 
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Jan 9, 2014 05:43
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Crazy Ted posted:Also that was the one where the opening ceremonies had a number featuring cheerleaders and pickup trucks. You beat me to it but that is still the memory I cherish the most. I grew up in Atlanta and even as a dumb teenage, thought that was the most hilariously terrible ideas ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po9AV3p7qkU
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/09/sepp-blatter-fifth-term-fifa-president?CMP=EMCFTBEML853a fat corrupt fraud posted:The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, has dropped another hint that he intends to stand for a fifth term as the head of football's governing body in next year's election.  It's not over yet you guys, he hasn't completed his mission, that mission being to completely kill football. He will never leave, will he? He's like the Swiss Robert Mugabe.
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May 9, 2014 16:27
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Shes Not Impressed posted:John Oliver did a World Cup/FIFA bit on his new show last night: Came here to post that. Oliver's been doing some great stuff on his new HBO show and that's probably been his best takedown so far. Also from the Bugle's wikia: http://bugle.wikia.com/wiki/John_Oliver quote:John Oliver has thrice urinated on Steven Gerrard. 
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Jun 9, 2014 17:41
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What would the criteria need to be for some sort of charges or at least penalties against Blatter / an organization like FIFA be? Would Switzerland need to actually pursue it or could say US law enforcement use something like the RICO statutes they like use to make anything all of a sudden a major felony? Just between the NYT article about crooked refs and documented collusion and bribery in the millions from Qatar in the last month, among other things, let alone all the other documented cases previously, there must be some sort of civil or criminal charges that could be filed right? Of course nothing will ever happen to this grossly corrupt organization but it'd be nice if at least someone somewhere with jurisdiction tried to make a case against them.
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Maybe he should've tried it get in with the Chilean fans?
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Jun 19, 2014 11:51
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Lol. Between FIFA and Putin, they never cease to amaze with new and interesting ways to be corrupt. Now I wonder who he gave away Tom Kraft's Super Bowl ring to as a bribe.
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Nov 30, 2014 18:51
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I really want to someone to remake the music video of Shaggy's classic jam, "It Wasn't Me," but about Sepp Blatter and FIFA. Instead of bootylicious models draped all over him in a mansion, it would be dead Nepalese serfs, Jack Warner gyrating in the background as Beckenbauer flashes his Rolexes, in an air-conditioned stadium in the desert. fake edit: pre-emptive "wrong thread," definitely should be in the Weekend Web
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Dec 29, 2014 23:22
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Der Shovel posted:Where's a bunch of angry terrorists when you need them? Ironically, they're extremely local to the venues.
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Feb 24, 2015 17:07
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Please just tell me that Tokyo Sexwale is going to be ok.
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May 27, 2015 11:40
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Could a fellow American please fulfill the needful and do a comprehensive write up as to the FIFA ExCom, CONCACAF and the other confederations would be which respective houses in Game of Thrones?
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May 27, 2015 11:51
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You know this is totally Sepp right now.
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May 29, 2015 19:33
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This is pretty cool and good: http://www.espnfc.com/blog/the-toe-poke/65/post/2540572/fifa-corruption-exhibition-set-to-open-in-las-vegas quote:With FIFA well and truly making an exhibition of themselves over the past few months, it's only natural that world football's governing body and the corruption scandal in which it is currently situated be turned into a museum piece in its own right. I'd love to see the diorama of Chuck Blazer's cat apartment, Jack Warner's development academy/Haitian relief efforts ("Exhibit under construction") and Qatar slave deaths that'd end up looking like the Terracota Army.
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Ok so the source isn't great but can we all at least agree it contains some very good sentences regarding everyone's favorite FIFA committee member, Tokyo Sexwale?
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Lol, FIFA will never change and they don't give a gently caress. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/10/ousted-fifa-ethics-heads-investigating-hundreds-corruption-cases quote:Football’s world governing body, Fifa, has “neutralised” and “incapacitated” its corruption investigations after removing the chairmen and all but two members of its ethics committee, the two ousted chairmen said the day before the organisation’s congress in Bahrain.
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May 11, 2017 13:45
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"FIFA Ethics Committee" is one of those great all-time oxymorons that makes me lol anytime I see something about it.
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May 11, 2017 19:56
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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.
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May 17, 2017 22:50
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How many Rolexes did Beckenbauer get for that? The Chinese will still be utter poo poo though, even if they were set up in La Masia or Ajax circa 1980's and 90's.
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Jun 23, 2017 18:34
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Pook Good Mook posted:I for one am excited to sit in the mega Hillsborough.
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Oct 4, 2017 22:24
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Should be in the Weekend Web thread.
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Apr 27, 2018 00:57
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If you look closely, it's actually one of those photo mosaics that's made with the pictures of thousands of Gigi Galli posted:White girls wrist tattoo
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Sep 4, 2019 18:03
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Jose posted:I didn't think we had that much reach Is this why the WAGs of the World Cup thread was shut down?
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Speaking of CAF, I wonder what has TRP All-Time Best XI for Corrupt FIFA Members with Fantastic Names MVP Tokyo Sexwale been up to?
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Gigi Galli posted:That’s only the public portion of the bribe I imagine. Knowing how they operate, I bet the real "settlement" was somehow even worse - like FIFA somehow is paying or promoting HIS interests in some sketchy scheme by funneling African youth players to PSG, "opening a grass roots development" across the Emirates or covering up literal dead bodies from some white elephant project.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:If anything this makes me more worried.  since I've been following their complicity with China in this little COVID-19 thing
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/24/sepp-blatter-gets-new-six-year-ban-from-football-after-fifa-investigationquote:The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been given a new ban of six years and eight months from football, the game’s global governing body has announced.  I’m sure this has taken care of the endemic corruption at FIFA.
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psyer posted:I think Infantino already mentioned about a tournament for teams that don't qualify for the World Cup is an idea they may explore in the future. Just roll this into the Homeless World Cup
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On 2nd thought, the homeless have been through enough, they shouldn’t have to deal with FIFA and probably don’t have money for bribes.
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Crazy Ted posted:The player: Michael Owen Your post reminded me of this https://youtu.be/CFnymJDZAS8
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Someone make sure to let the Leicester players know via WhatsApp.
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Ok, everyone, I hope you're all sitting down for this news, which brings me no joy but it sounds like Qatar might be a bit of a clusterfuck: https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/world-cup-2022-qatar-opened-its-massive-lusail-stadium-and-the-reviews-were-not-great-134801410.html quote:Once the match ended, the stadium received a litany of poor reviews from fans who attended, according to Reuters and Doha News. Lack of hydration stations and bathrooms, poor air conditioning and long public transportation lines were the biggest issues fans had with the stadium where the World Cup final will be played on Dec. 18. At least it didn't take literally thousands of lives from poor migrants across Asia to provide this incredible experience for the global sports' premier event! Bonus is an Infantino quote from that that article earlier this year that I hadn't heard before: quote:Infantino saying that Qatar's migrant World Cup workers are operating in "hard conditions" — and those "hard conditions" should give them "dignity and pride" — is a shocking way to characterize what they've reportedly been dealing with. Amnesty International has documented that workers in Qatar are being "exploited" and "subjected to forced labor," which were huge concerns even in 2010 when Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup. Urgh, gently caress FIFA so hard
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Today I feel like a stray dog
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webmeister posted:Cool, the country where women need permission from a man to do basically anything is going to be a sponsor for the Women’s World Cup later this year That kind of reminds me of when I lived in China in 2007-2008 and they hosted the Special Olympics right before the Beijing Olympics and I saw this on a restroom door in their largest and most cosmopolitan city 
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Akbar posted:Shanghai? Yep
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Started out with a kiss How did it end up like this It was only a kiss
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Feel very silly and naive when Blatter finally went down and I momentarily believed “surely it can't get dumber and more blatantly corrupt” and Infantino/FIFA have proved me wrong every day since
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