great great news for football, but this bloke is an effing time waster why has it taken him so long to see how much him and his cronies are loathed by most of the world, the honourable thing would have been to go before the election last week, he gets no points for this in my book but glad to see the back of him
He was due to travel to the US in the near future on FIFA business and I reckon he was given the nod that he'd be arrested by the FBI. Reflecting other comments on here, I hope the investigations continue apace and FIFA is totally reformed. Also, he had a lot of support from countries that must have benefited from his approach to give him the nod - it's important, without it appearing like a witch-hunt, that transactions/deals relating to these countries are scrutinised too.
The English FA spent £millions on their failed 2018 World Cup bid. A bid that although by far the best was never going to win because of the corruption within FIFA, the FA should sue the fecking arse of FIFA, breakaway completely and go their own way. The Premier League is the biggest competition on the planet so **** 'em
Would like to know why he didn't step down in the 2nd round of voting last week. This must be one of the shortest reigns of someone re-elected to a top position in a major organisation. Glad to see the back of him, just hope the next President of FIFA is not as corrupt as him or has has been chosen by him. We need someone with a true love of the game who will treat all countries (great and small) equally and fairly, and not be subject to bribes and corruption.
I wrote a thread on here today about Charles Kennedy, a clever, likeable, funny,and very intelligent man who was so many things that people aspire to be and who has tragically died at 55. Why is it that total utter corrupt bastards like Blatter live to their near 80's and who have done f*ck all for anyone but themselves and yet they just seem to carry on regardless. Billy Joel wrote a song "Only the good die young" and I guess today is a pretty sad reminder of the truth of those words. God bless Charles, I cannot say that for you Sepp!
Rob, Are you corrupt? Do you have a bank account that aches to grow? Are you a total bastard? If yes then go for it, you are made for the role. If not (as I suspect) then please return to the Norwich City fold and be yourself, it is far better that way.
To be honest I don't think the corruption lies with Blatter, he may be incompetent and out of touch but I don't think he's the demon people are making out. I'm sure we will find the vast majority of corruption lies within the governing bodies of each country in tandem with those in close proximity within FIFA. I also think FIFA have been correct to spread football around the world and not just focus on the Europeans and South Americans. The World Cup should be going to places like Russia, Quatar, South Korea etc and I think alot of the ill feeling in this country comes from England not winning any World Cup bids. England doesn't need a World Cup to benefit football as a global sport, we don't own it, its not our game, we certainly are not a shining light as to how to create players. We do not deserve it.
Whoa Carrabuh, England invented the game and have only hosted it once and that was when it was in it's relative infancy. Germany have had it two times, even bloody Mexico have had it twice, England should have been awarded the tournament for 2018 and you know that, FIFA are a ****ing joke.
Well, you know, I could probably manage to be a little bit corrupt. Nothing truly brazen, but just engineering Norwich City to win a title or two. Maybe a spell in the CL. Nothing too horrendous. As for my bank account - I wouldn't say aches, but it informs me that it would be partial to a chunk of Blatter's $1.5m salary plus bonuses and expenses. Again, nothing drastic, but you know, I could probably cope with a bit of that. And bastard? I suppose if I need a reference or two I could always refer you to our erstwhile resident Binners. So you see I'm not a fully-qualified board member, but then equally we wouldn't want to totally upset the apple cart and make FIFA squeaky clean right away now would we? That might make the whole system very precarious. We'd need a sort of interim period where we steadily tone it down gently. Baby steps. I could do that.
Blatter must know that he was at the end of the road, he wouldn't have resigned if he thought there was any plausible way to stay. There was a rumour that the only reason he wasn't arrested last week was because the Swiss weren't keen on extraditing one if their own. Sounds like they're after him anyway. FIFA in its current form needs to die for too long football has been far too backward, the use of technology in refereeing, which has now been adopted by pretty much every major sport going shows there failings. They should give been driving the game forward instead they're way too Laissez-faire. They should be modernisers but they're got too distracted lining their own pockets. Another example is that they're about 3 years behind most other sports on concussion rulings I know football is only semi contact but they still need to react to new research. FIFA will need to almost set its self up in parallel to itself. Let the old world tear down the walls and shine light on everything while the new world builds an organisation the spirt will be proud if not handcuffed by. The new executive committee and leader will have an extremely hard job, dear god lets hope it's not an ex footballer.
