Truly amazing.........a goal is not given against England.....so Sepp Blatter calls for goaline technology. Good grief....the man is so anti-English that it is getting beyond a joke. There was an assistant Referee on the line...no more than ten yards from the action.....he didn't give any comment to the Ref that the ball was completely over the line (is he supposed to ?).....even on repeated play-backs a set of feeler gauges would of only measured one millimetre over at the most........but Blatter is obviously appalled that a goal isn't given. In the World Cup two years ago.....Lampards shot bounced at least one yard over the line before being hooked back into play by the German goalkeeper........of course it wasn't a goal....not against Germany.........Blatter said nothing about we need technology and straight away, did he .....what an incompetent baffoon the man is..............a good job that it didn't make any difference to the league table.
Steady plym that is slightly on the libelous side of the fence there. It is clear that he doesn't much like the English that much is true. The result of the World Cup debacle is testament to that. Qatar is so the wrong place for it and Russia is as bent as the hosts of the Euros. He was so adamantly against goal line technology previously and every statement of his said as much. As you say, now the boot is on the other foot he does seem to have swayed in the opposite direction. No comment that it was offside anyway I suppose. No doubt this one will be replayed again and again and somebody will come up with the means to measure it in or not eventually. My first instinct was it was in and the replay shown by the TV was even more that it was. Surely all they have to do is recreat the goal line and then raise it to the height of the ball in close up. They do this for offside matters with their moveable line. Don't really care that much though, the result is in and counted and England are in the next round rightly or wrongly.
Your probably right sensible (modified)........how can you find someone who is as straight as a die to lead these major world sports bodies........no one gives their vote for no returns from what I can see........everything is political in some form or other........so sad. I can understand people looking at James Brent and wandering what little number he has got going.........how can Cliff Richard be straight is another mystery of life....I'm sure both are ok,but how do you prove it.
Typical of the buffoon Blatter. Is Platini related to him as he is another arsehole! Uefa and fifa are a joke. Roll on when the season starts and the prediction league. Hope ypu are both well and the Mrs is ok now Plym.
Hi joe hows it hanging? I thought that was a rather tame response from you there. Have you mellowed or something in your old age. Hope all is well with you.
You forgot to mention when Chelsea won against a German team on penalties he announced that matches shouldn't be decided by that way in the future .... Its the same with the Eurovision Contest .... I really dont know why we bother these foreigners when its so obvious that their standards and morals are so different from ours !
He is blatently biased against the English as are most Europeans I'm afraid hence the afor mentioned Eurovision song contest which we should've pulled out of back in the late 70's/early 80's - it's utter tosh anyway. Blatter doesn't like us because we found him out. I will say no more for the same reasons as Plym but you get my drift. Good post btw Plym and I echo your comments.
There is the thing though. Corruption is a thing we expect from johnny foreigner coming from our stiff upper lip fair play upbringing. Everytime there is a whiff of scandal we all go into overdrive about their morals and standards. However, there is plenty of the immoral and low standard stuff going on in this country and it always has. We may not offer delegates prostitutes and watches but you can bet your bottom dollar we offer something. The sad fact is that ALL of these things are done under the counter and if you move in the right circles it is expected. We on the outside are always appalled at them but generally the bottom feeders have more of a sense of morals than the top feeders. If everything was to be revealed in full then there would be nobody in office anywhere.
Sensible, but what is the point of a "competition" if it is not run fairly - I'd sooner withdraw from it, if everyone did that they would have to do something about it wouldn't they? Sounds to me like you have reluctantly accepted it as the norm, to do that is to allow it to continue - even worsen.
You just prove my point Mrs lalala. You do not accept corruption because you are not in the circle who has grown up with it. You are part of the bottom feeder group like myself who has no say. The people who could withdraw from these things are the very people who feed at the top and therefore accept the goings on as normal. There is no chance they are going to jeopardise their own standing in the name of any moral crusade. If the British did by some strange happening pull out and boycott anything then the rest of the world would just soldier on without us and would care not a jot. Johnny foreigner was brought up with corruption being an everyday occurance and has always accepted it as a way of life.
Good point Gat-Po.........Penalty shoot outs are for whipping the English with....not allowing them to win with. The Euro Song Contest......It doesn't need the songs........just get on with the damn voting......it could all be done in 30 minutes and cost a tenth of what it does at present......some countries fear winning it because they cannot afford to hold it the next year.
I think some of this is off-beam. Blatter isn't anti-English as such, it's much worse than that. Firstly, FIFA has several times shown itself to be deeply corrupt. Anything that threatens that, small matters like a free press for example, turns Blatter against you. It could be us, it could be anyone who dares to point out that the Emperor has no clothes. Secondly, the whole organisation is administered in such a way that a few people can put their personal prejudices into action. Why do we need all powerful regional delegates like the infamous Jack Warner when the countries he "represents" could just as easily represent themselves? It's practically begging for corruption to take place. The goal-line technology issue is a very rare one in which Blatter is having to back down. I don't think it's particularly that England may have benefited in this case but more that he was so hopelessly wrong and out of tune with everyone else in football in rejecting technology that he just can't hold the line any longer. The Olympic body used to have these self same issues and it's probably better now than it used to be. It doesn't alter the fact that 90% of the seats for the prime events will be occupied by officials, officials' friends & family, sponsors, dignitaries etc etc though or that these individuals will be whisked around London to & from their block-booked 5-star hotels in hired limousines causing chaos in their reserved priority traffic lanes. This may seem surprisingly leftist coming from me. It isn't. I have no problem with those that have earned their wealth enjoying it - even Jimmy Carr. I have no time at all for talentless hangers on enjoying the high life at our expense.
Better to be out of touch with tabloid muddleheadedness than be the people who got us into this mess in the first place - stand up Ed Balls, economic adviser to Gordon Brown while the money ran out and now, God forbid, Shadow Chancellor. Don't forget [I won't let you] that between them Gordon Brown and Ed Balls left borrowing higher than Spain's behind and that there won't be any Euro bail out from Germany for us if Balls ever gets into No 11, it'll be straight to the IMF within months. Then you'll find out what austerity really means.
I don't think thaat Blatter is necessarily anti England either but can see how it would come across that way. I think he is anti anyone who gets in his way whilst feeding from his bejeweled trough. If a press is likely to blow cover and run a story it is the English one. I don't agree that the Olympic mob are any less so than in football either. It is multi million or even billion money that is involved and as long as the stakes are that high then troughs will undoubtedly be presented for feed to be supplied.
Plym! Must you encourage him? You know that by bringing politics into the equasion you will rattle distant's cage!
Hi Sensible, sorry for the late reply. Yes all ok at present had a few problems with the little fellow but he is home again now. Hope your well and the season will soon be here. I have been popping oo to read some of the comments on matters. very amusing, yes it was a mellow reply from me on blatter. He is a crook, nothing else to say on the matter. He looks fuc king annoying and so that other tosser Platini
Has Platini worked out a way of ripping off sixteen cities instead of just one or two........and of course his partner in crime Blatter will get his 10%.
