Fifa's Castle Starting To Crumble?

I bloody hope so the rats.

 

I want to know what role Luis Suarez has played in all of this!

 

He's found an effective and ingenious way of passing bribes to individual players via his teeth. These players tend to come from notoriously dodgy countries like Russia and Italy.

 

Just planning to bite Blatter.

 

The indictment is damning, FIFA themselves have wired bung money from their own account.

No way can Blatter ride this out and claim zero knowledge as his excuse. He's royally ****ed here, as I think the Sherman's are popcorning, they've got more, this is just the start.

 

Reading through all the official warrants and orders it seems to me that this really is actually happening. A huge investigative effort has come to fruition.

It's amazing really. I feared this morning it was all just a big show but it seems to be a very powerful force has just hit fifa square between the eyes.


Pity they have not hit the Olympics and all

Well here is hoping sonething might change

 

They do like to get a big splash of publicity to get the ball rolling no question. I'm sure they've done it to shake loose any resistance to the next stage

 

David Down (the man behind the U.S bid for 2018 and 2022 world cup) is alleged to have had a major role in instigating this investigation.

It's being reported that members of the US team reported their suspicions to US Justice department on "spending" by other nations involving FIFA officials.

@Sisu #positiveconspiracy

 

There is no question you do not cross the Usa. 2022 was supposed to go to usa and Qatar bribed more.

Big mistake. They should have simply sold 2026 to Qatar and pleased the usa

 

Blatter's managed to find Hitler's bunker it appears lol

 

Sure you can see the tribute system FIFA had set up, with the bags of Rolex watch gifts in Brazil for example. Ridiculous lavish squandering on already wealthy people. Money is how things happen, in FIFA and in politics in general, FIFA are political after all for all their talk of politics not interfering with football. Irony is not strong enough a word. #megarony

 

Tbf it's no different to other sporting organisations. The IOC was doing it well before FIFA or Sepp came along. But IOC has been cleaned up a heck of a lot in the last decade. Same needs to happen with FIFA.

Btw the best thing that can happen tomorrow is for Prince Ali to pull out of the election and thereby implicate Sepp fully in all of this. If Ali makes a statement saying an election would be a sham under the circumstances. With Sepp the only one left in the election it will seem even more corrupt if he continues by default. It would be a masterstroke of political expediency on the part of Ali.

 

There is no fixing it because no one is addressing the corrupt organisations that make up FIFA as well as the hierarchy. Sure they hire Garcia and then dont publish his report and just make up their own summary "No wrong doing" and Garcia quits calling them liars pretty much.

The Qatar is the biggest scandal in football ever yet it seems no one is willing to openly say it, due to the threat lawfare no doubt. You take on the Sheiks and FIFA if you start gobbing off. It has largely gone unnoticed apart from the heat issue. I mean, women are only objects there, migrant workers slaves and absolutely **** all infrastructure to support it when they made their bid. The WC there was purchased 100%. We are talking big bucks.

FIFA have so much leverage these days, financial leverage and they are literally a power unto themselves, UEFA the same. Who elects these douchebags ffs.

 

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Are we really relying on a member of a middle east royal family to save an organisation from corruption?

 

There's no real heroes in any of this. No bastian of virtue is going to come along and save world football and we're all going to ride off into the sunset. I don't see the players in this as heroes and villiains or their motives as black or white, not Ali, not even the U.S. or their Justice Dept. They all have their own interests. As I've tried to get across to Sisu, I'm just counting (perhaps hoping) that the right ppl will do the right thing at the right time in this instance bcos it happens to suit their interest and ours. That's politics and that's how these things work. That's as much as any of us can hope for. If anyone is expecting more they're a bigger optimist than I am tbh.

 

Read all the comments on here and agree with all, but somehow still think Blatter will walk away from this relatively unscathed...

 

Yep,its gonna be the usual bullshit where Blatter denies any knowledge of wrongdoing (Murdoch style) and gets away with it

 

Batters statement on yesterday's events.

"This is a difficult time for football, the fans and for FIFA as an organisation. We understand the disappointment that many have expressed and I know that the events of today will impact the way in which many people view us.

As unfortunate as these events are, it should be clear that we welcome the actions and the investigations by the US and Swiss authorities and believe that it will help to reinforce measures that FIFA has already taken to root out any wrongdoing in football.

While there will be many who are frustrated with the pace of change, I would like to stress the actions that we have taken and will continue to take. In fact, today’s action by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General was set in motion when we submitted a dossier to the Swiss authorities late last year.

Let me be clear: such misconduct has no place in football and we will ensure that those who engage in it are put out of the game. Following the events of today, the independent Ethics Committee – which is in the midst of its own proceedings regarding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups – took swift action to provisionally ban those individuals named by the authorities from any football-related activities at the national and international level. These actions are on top of similar steps that FIFA has taken over the past year to exclude any members who violate our own Code of Ethics.

We will continue to work with the relevant authorities and we will work vigorously within FIFA in order to root out any misconduct, to regain your trust and ensure that football worldwide is free from wrongdoing."

Paragraph three shows the snake still refuses any responsibility for what's happened, he relates Fifa being made to hand over documents to the Swiss authorities as if it was all voluntary at the time, around the same time he and his cronies refused to release to the public the findings of the American lawyers investigation into corruption behind the WC bids.

The sooner he's gone(to jail preferably) from football the better.