Nevermind septic bladder, most of us know he is up to his neck in it. I now hope that the Platini is also guilty and can also be removed from the Fifa/Uefa gravy train. Both organisations need a root and branch clear out. imo.
FIFA's four biggest sponsors, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Visa and Budweiser, have all written open letters to FIFA saying Blatter needs to leave immediately. If the Ethics Committee now decide he needs to go, there's nothing he can do about it.
Just seen on the news Blatter's lawyer put out a statement that Blatter will not resign as its not in the best interests of FIFA's reform program.
According to the BBC this morning, this payment to Platini was allegedly 9 years later for work he has supposed to have carried out, but happened a weeks before Platini said he would back Blatter for re-election. The whole thing smells rotten.
If Blatter was to go, he'd automatically be replaced by current No.2 Hayatou, who is currently on a dialysis machine and was reprimanded by the IOC in 2011 for taking bribes. If the Ethics Committee were to suspend Blatter, they'd almost certainly have to suspend Platini as well, ideally they'd suspend absolutely everyone.
Fifa's ethics committee took forever to act with Jack Warner though so we'd better not hold our breath.
Amanda Davies@AmandaJDavies Being told that Judge Eckhert informed Blatter of provisional suspension. Blatter sees self still as FIFA President + will continue to serve. He won't even leave when the Ethics Committee tell him to.
It is far worse than rotten John. How anyone can forget they are owed £1.9m-ish from someone beggars belief. Uefa also don't look good in all this. Blatter and Platini OUT.
Platini going too! Sepp Blatter’s 17-year reign as the Fifa president is all but over after the investigatory arm of its ethics committee suspended him for 90 days ahead of the February election. The Uefa president, Michel Platini, who was the favourite to succeed his mentor-turned-rival until he too become embroiled in corruption allegations, has been handed an identical sanction, ending his Fifa presidential ambitions. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/oct/08/sepp-blatter-suspended-fifa
I really dont understand why people are celebrating this. The suggestion that football's governing body has essentially been run by criminals for the best part of 20 years is nothing to celebrate in my eyes.
Platini has a fair point. The money paid to him was part of his salary that FIFA couldn't afford to pay him 9 years ago as they only had a £75m cash surplus available. Seems a reasonable explanation to me.
What I dont understand is how it's taken this long? FIFA has obviously been corrupt for a few decades at least. The last 10 it's been obvious for everyone to see. And the last 5 or so years has been an absolute farce. How they thought they could get away with the level of corruption they were all undertaking is staggering. Both UEFA and FIFA have zero credibility. Rename, and completely restaff both organisations.
And the other part of the perfectly reasonable explanation is Platini's claim that for many years he forgot to ask for the money.
It's the unfortunate case of the chief of police looking for an arsonist when the arsonist is the chief of police.
Presumably because both organisations have multiple layers of corrupt employees, one layer covering for the next and so on. What makes this glaringly obvious to me is that the investigative powers of the USA were required before the house of cards started to fall. Where were the whistle blowers?!
You're not normal. Was people showing delight at the arrest of Peter Sutcliffe merely a suggestion that there had been a serial rapist & murderer on the loose for the best part of 10 years or were the people just happy that the **** & his actions had been stopped in his tracks? People are celebrating that the obvious corruption may well be coming to an end & the main instigators brought to task. We could all ostrich our heads in the sand & pretend there's no corruption in football, like supporters of Italian football like to do, if it makes you feel better.
