Fifa's Castle Starting To Crumble?

Qatar have 0 'Istoree when it comes to football too.
And the figures on construction worker deaths is insane.

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**** me!

Sochi is kinda understandable as building went on through the winters there which made it very dangerous

 

I know right.
Shocking when you see it in black and white.
I know it mind sound dramatic, but FIFA must at least be considered partially responsible for those deaths aswell.
I mean its not like they were unaware of a complete lack of health and safety regulations in Qatar, no unions at all, not to mention working outside in that heat for prolonged amounts of time.
I assume when countries put themselves forward for nomination, they have to outline their plans for building works for stadiums to host the event etc with timetables and other information.
To award them a world cup, knowing this......not just corrupt, but morally reprehensible.

 

surprised SA is only two

 

Famous German humour...

 

They're literally spending them like building materials, **** safety ust get it done fast. Those are the sort of death rates slaves might suffer.

 

http://www.zeit.de/sport/2014-05/sepp-blatter-fifa-korruption

I'm afraid the paper is called Die Zeit though. And the comment quoted is not the first comment. The article is also from May 2014.

Still good though

 

Oh, well that's ok then.

 

The vote for the presidency of Fifa, football's world governing body, has gone into a second round after neither candidate won two-thirds of the vote.
The incumbent Sepp Blatter won 133 votes to 73 for Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan.
The second round requires a simple majority of the 209 federations.
The vote has been overshadowed by corruption allegations after seven top officials were arrested in Switzerland on Wednesday in a US prosecution.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32937639

 

David Gill was today accepted into the Fifa family after his own election win, he said he would resign immediately if Blatter was reelected, so will he keep his word?

 

Bollocks.

Uefa should break away. Watch FIFA crumble because almost all the monet comes from European football.

 

Its Fergie's fault.

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Ali withdraws, Blatter wins.

Let's see what UEFA does now...

 

Is FIFA's response to the investigations to bribe using paintings rather than cash now?

 

Blatter wins. Advert comes on.

American Sniper.

Make it happen yanks.

 

Blatter: Now I'm president of everybody

 

Just wondering - UEFA can presumably withdraw from FIFA and so effectively prevent the individual associations from playing in the world cup. Do they have the ability to prevent players playing for teams in Europe from the playing in the world cup as well? That would really hit the world cup hard.

 

Former Portugal international Luis Figo, who pulled out of the race to succeed Sepp Blatter as Fifa president last week, has given his reaction to today's vote...

"Today was another dark day in Zurich," began Figo. before going on to say, "Fifa has lost, but above everything, football has lost and everyone who truly cares about it has lost too.

"Mr. Blatter had a very cynical reaction when he said that he couldn't control everyone. It offends everyone's intelligence. These persons, whom Mr. Blatter has promoted through years, turned, with him, Fifa in to a decadent organization.

"If Mr. Blatter were minimally concerned about football, he would have given up of the re-election. If he has a minimal of decency, he will resign in the next few days."

Fairly strong words.

 

Irish FA chief executive Patrick Nelson on BBC Radio 5 live:

"It's a little too early to be thinking about things like breaking from Fifa. Things are best dealt with in the cold light of day.

"Anything could be on the table but it's a stretch to think about radical solutions at the moment. There's a lot of thinking to be done."

Fairly weak words...

 

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke on Sepp Blatter's re-election, talking to Sky News:

"We think that's the impact of the events of this week, but this isn't over by any means. The events of this week were so dramatic for FIFA, but I cannot see FIFA reforming itself under Blatter. He's had 16 years to reform it but he hasn't done it.

"England won't withdraw from anything on its own and you can be absolutely certain about that. That would be ridiculous. There will be discussions I think in FIFA about this result and what FIFA should do next but that won't be England alone."

"This is the beginning not the end. I think there is a lot more of this to play out."

Medium words...