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Rath on 27 May 2011

This is getting ridiculous.

 

The president of FIFA, Blatter, has just been put under investigation.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/13574338.stm

Before this both the other presidential contender and the vice president were under investigation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/13559384.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/13544347.stm

And before that two other executive members were accused of taking bribes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/13345669.stm

 

Nevermind the people who were suspended from the executive before the world cup vote for taking bribes in that.



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mchaza on 27 May 2011

this is not good, I didn't pay all that money to pressure umpires to rig games to bet huge sums on reap rewards only to have them get caught!!



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manuel on 27 May 2011

Any person in a position that involves a lot of money is corrupt. And I'm pretty sure there are no (or at least only very few) exceptions.

I'm not surprised by anything any more.



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The Fury on 27 May 2011

They are mostly businessmen and it is a business after all.

I'd like to think that FIFA shouldn't exist as it is. FIFA should exist and be headed by country FAs as they are, not a single governing body like it currently exists governing them all. All members have representation, are equal and all get a say in rules and policies.

EDIT: Hold on that doesn't make sense...I'll think this over some more.



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airRoman on 28 May 2011

I hope the World Cup@ Qattar bombs..... only gonna watch Russia/usa games everyone else will loose 1 rating



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Troll_Whisperer on 29 May 2011

Yeah, what a coincidence that countries with vast oil resources and dodgy goverments are the next ones to host the world.



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Mr Khan on 29 May 2011
Troll_Whisperer said:

Yeah, what a coincidence that countries with vast oil resources and dodgy goverments are the next ones to host the world.

It's also a matter of market expansion, at least into the Persian Gulf. Has Russia ever hosted it?



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Rath on 29 May 2011
Mr Khan said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Yeah, what a coincidence that countries with vast oil resources and dodgy goverments are the next ones to host the world.

It's also a matter of market expansion, at least into the Persian Gulf. Has Russia ever hosted it?

It seems to me that it was mostly the countries that were least adverse to handing out bribes.



Mr Khan on 29 May 2011
Rath said:
Mr Khan said:
Troll_Whisperer said:

Yeah, what a coincidence that countries with vast oil resources and dodgy goverments are the next ones to host the world.

It's also a matter of market expansion, at least into the Persian Gulf. Has Russia ever hosted it?

It seems to me that it was mostly the countries that were least adverse to handing out bribes.

I don't doubt that that played a part in it, i'm just saying that they not only did that, but also have the "fairness" factor going for them, fairness in that the main competitors were all the kind of mainstay countries you'd expect to receive such an event, unless the FIFA decision process is supposed to be fundamentally different from the one used by the Olympics people...



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Rath on 30 May 2011

FIFAs secretary general claimed in an email thats just been leaked that Qatar did buy the world cup.

 

I seriously can't see FIFA coming through this without major changes in structure...